Fluency Doesn't Mean Fast
The three components of fluency.
What are Accuracy, Rate, and Expression?
Congress funded this in 1997 to evaluate research about teaching children to read.
What is the National Reading Panel
True or False: Systematic and explicit phonics instruction makes a bigger contribution to children's growth in reading than instruction that provides non-systematic or no phonics instruction.
True
The 'gl' in glamour is this.
What is a blend?
Necessary for comprehension and motivated reading
What is reading fluency?
Instruction in the essential elements with ELLs has a greater effect on _____ and ______ than on comprehension.
What is Decoding and Frequency?
This is the goal of phonics instruction.
What is to help children learn and use the alphabetic principle?
Inorder to move from beginner to transitional in the TSI, a student must score this.
What is 18?
pitch, tone, volume, emphasis, and rhythm
What is expression
ELLs have difficulty with fluency because of this.
Slowed ability to decode words due to lack of proficiency in English, unable to understand meanings of words, or how words combine to produce sentences.
Fluency provides a bridge between ____ and ____.
What is word recognition and comprehension?
This is a major difference between good readers and poor readers.
What is the amount of time they spend reading?
Graphemes have associated sounds that need to be accurately identified and processed
What is the alphabetic principle?
These make up the five essential elements of reading instruction.
What are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?
True or False: Fluency develops quickly in a short period of time with minimal practice.
False: fluency develops gradually over time and through substantial practice.
the letter-sound relationship is taught in an organized and logical sequence
What is systematic phonic instruction?
Struggling readers in the early process of learning, lag behind everyone else.
What is the Matthew Effect?
This is one of the three most important reasons that ELLs have difficulties with comprehension.
What is Lack of background knowledge?
What is the Language level of the text?
What is the comprehension instruction isn't modified to meet their needs but the needs of the native speakers?
Researchers have investigated two major instructional approaches related to fluency. The first approach is reading. The second approach is ____.
What is independent silent reading?
the letter-sound relationship is taught in an organized and logical sequence
What is explicit phonic instruction?