The ability to read and write effortlessly and efficiently.
What is reading fluency?
100
A strategy where readers identify multisyllabic words by peeling off prefixes and suffixes.
What is morphemic analysis?
100
The ability to write most words automatically and accurately.
What is writing automaticity?
100
Students in the fourth grade and beyond who are not fluent writers.
Who are dysfluent writers?
100
Most students reach this speed by third grade.
What is 100 words per minute?
200
The ability to read sentences expressively and with appropriate phrasing and intonation.
What is prosody?
200
A strategy where readers identify words by associating them with words they already know.
What is decoding by analogy?
200
The ability to write with tone or emotional feeling in a way that reflects one's own individuality.
What is writer's voice?
200
Students in the Fourth grade and beyond who are not fluent readers.
Who are dysfluent readers?
200
Teachers immerse students in oral activities and help them make connections between oral and written language.
What are ways to nurture English language learners with fluency?
300
The ability to recognize words automatically without conscious thought and to identify unfamiliar words almost as quickly.
What is reading automaticity?
300
A strategy where readers use their knowledge about phoneme-grapheme correspondences and phonics rules to decode words.
What is phonic analysis?
300
Fluent writers spell words automatically and write quickly so that they can focus on developing their ideas.
What is writing fluency?
300
Lack of automaticity, unfamiliarity with words-identification–strategies, slow reading speed, slow writing speed, lack of prosody, and voiceless writing.
What are the obstacles to fluency?
300
An oral reading fluency subtest.
What is Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy?
400
This topic involves automaticity, speed, and prosody.
What is reading fluency?
400
The strategy of dividing a long word into syllables in order to identify the word.
What is syllabic analysis?
400
The ability to write quickly enough to keep pace with one's own thinking.
What is writer's speed?
400
An assessment tool where a teacher makes notes as they listen to a student reread a familiar book in order to monitor their ability to recognize high-frequency words, decode unfamiliar word, and use reading strategies.
What is a running record?
400
Teachers collect data at the beginning of the school year and at the end of every quarter to check for accuracy, speed , and prosody. They do this to monitor students’ growth over time
What is assessing reading fluency?
500
The ability to read a certain number of words per minute, depending on reading fluency and level.
What is reading speed?
500
Phonic analysis, decoding by analogy, syllabic analysis, and morphemic analysis.
What are the four word identification strategies?
500
Writer's automaticity, speed, and voice.
What are the three components of writing fluency?
500
Informal observations and teacher made word lists to diagnose struggling readers’ accuracy, reading speed, and prosody problems.