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Fluency
Fluency enables students to read text with ease, supporting them to focus sufficient working
memory on meaning.
Fluent readers are able to:
• recognise a high proportion of whole words automatically (Chard et al 2002; Rose 2006)
through the visual processing system
• decode words that they do not know using
(Rose 2006)
• group or chunk words together, pausing after phrases, clauses and sentences to assist
them to gain meaning from what they read (Chard et al 2002).
To increase students’ reading fluency, the teacher:
• explains that fluency assists students to focus on the meaning of text
• regularly models reading fluently and with expression to demonstrate that a reader’s
voice can help the text make sense
• explains why their voice is changing (eg pausing, raising, lowering) during shared reading
• provides regular fluency activities, eg repeated reading, choral reading of patterned or
predictable texts, independent reading with a high level of success
• encourages students to read more fluently and with expression
• provides additional practice for students who are not achieving oral reading fluency
criteria as appropriate to their stage.
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