Fluency
The ability to read quickly, accurately and with expression.
What is reading fluency?
Measures reader's ability to decode phonetically regular words.
What is the Names Test?
Students write without stopping for 5 minutes.
What is quick writing.
Being able to write automatically, without having to stop and think about how to spell words.
What is accuracy?
When followed by an a, o, or u it is pronounced /k/.
What is the letter C?
The ability to recognize familiar words automatically.
What is accuracy?
Students read aloud a graded passage and teachers mark errors, ask comprehension questions, and words read per minute.
What are Fluency Checks? Or what are Reading Records.
What is reading stamina.
The tone or emotional feeling of a piece of writing.
What is voice?
These letters say their names.
What are long vowels.
Ability to read orally at least 100 words per minute.
What is reading speed?
A collection of leveled books that teachers use to assess students' reading fluency.
What is the DRA2 kit?
Problems that students encounter in their attempts to read and write fluently.
What are obstacles to fluency?
What is writing speed?
When followed by e, i or y it is pronounced /j/.
What is the letter G.
The ability to read sentences expressively.
What is prosody?
Longer passages to test reading fluency and ability to sustain reading.
What are 3-minute reading assessments?
These are the most common words spoken, and are often hard to decode. Teachers must teach them explicitly to ensure fluency.
What are high-frequency words?
A writer who struggles with one or all of the writing fluency characteristics.
What is a dysfluent writer?
Combinations of vowels representing a single sound.
Readers who are not fluent readers.
What is dysfluent?
A type of reading inventory that is best used for 2nd grade reading level and above.
What are Informal Reading Inventories/IRIs?
Guthrie (2004) found that capable readers spend this much more time reading than struggling readers.
What is 500%.
When you can read what your students wrote.
What is legibility?
The letter R influences the sound.
What are r-controlled vowels.