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    NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | JERRY L.

    JOHNS LITERACY CLINIC

    Raising Readers: Tips for Parents

    What is Fluency?
    Adapted from: Elish-Piper, L. (2010). Information and ideas for parents about
    fluency and vocabulary. Illinois Reading Council Journal, 38(2), 48-49.

    Reading fluency is the ability to read a text easily. Reading mean that children should read as fast as they possibly can.
    fluency actually has four parts: accuracy, speed, expression and Rate needs to be combined with accuracy, expression and
    comprehension. Each part is important, but no single part is comprehension to produce fluent reading. Some schools
    enough on its own. A fluent reader is able to coordinate all four provide a target rate for students in each grade level, usually as
    aspects of fluency. the number of correct words read per minute. You may wish
    to ask your child’s teacher if there is a rate goal used for your
    Accuracy: Reading words correctly is a key to developing
    child’s grade level. Those rate targets are important, but they
    fluency. Children need to be able to read words easily without
    are not the only goal for fluency. For example, if a child reads
    having to stop and decode them by sounding them out or
    very quickly but does not read with expression or understand
    breaking them into chunks. When children can accurately and
    what is read, that child is not reading fluently.
    easily read the words in a text, they are able to think about what
    they are reading rather than putting all of their effort toward Expression: Expression in fluency refers to the ability to read
    figuring out the words. To read a text fluently, a child should in a way that sounds like spoken language. This means that the
    be able to read almost all of the words easily. In fact, a goal child uses appropriate emotion to read aloud, pauses for periods
    of fluent reading is for the child to read at least 98 out of 100 and commas and emphasizes important words. Expression also
    words accurately and easily. Accuracy combines with the other shows that the child understands what is being read.
    three parts of fluency to produce fluent readers. Comprehension: Fluency is the bridge between being able
    Speed: When children read fluently, they read at an efficient to read (or decode) words and to comprehend or understand
    rate. This means that they read quickly. Rate does not what is read. The real goal of reading fluency is to help children
    read a text with ease so they can focus on understanding what
    they read. The human brain is amazing, but it can only handle a
    limited number of tasks at the same time. If a child is struggling
    to identify words, the child’s brain must focus all of its energy
    on figuring out words rather than understanding what is read.
    Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic
    When the child is able to combine accuracy, rate, expression
    College of Education
    and comprehension, that is reading fluency.
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | JERRY L. JOHNS LITERACY CLINIC

    What can parents do to reading fluency at home?


    Here are 10 quick and easy activities parents can do to help
    their children build their reading fluency at home.
    7. Review basic high-frequency words with your child to
    make sure that they know these words automatically.
    1. Reading and rereading easy books is a great way to build Knowing these common words on sight will help to
    your child’s reading fluency. Have your child select a improve your child’s reading accuracy and rate. This
    favorite book and read it aloud two or three times. This link includes a list of high frequency words: http://bjh.
    approach, called repeated readings, is one of the best ways dadeschools.net/assets/fry_complete_1000.pdf.
    to promote reading fluency.
    8. Choose a comic strip from the newspaper or online.
    2. Model fluent reading for your child by reading aloud daily. Read the comic strip aloud, using expression. Then ask
    Be sure to use expression in your reading. You can even your child to read the comic strip aloud. This is a fun
    use funny voices for dialogue as you read aloud. activity to do at the breakfast or dinner table with the
    daily newspaper.
    3. Echo reading helps to build reading fluency. You read
    a phrase, sentence or paragraph aloud to model fluent 9. Have your child practice reading a text aloud while
    reading. Your child then reads the same phrase, sentence riding in the car or on the bus. Your child will stay busy
    or paragraph afterward, like an echo. Continue this and entertained, and this extra practice can make a big
    pattern until you have read a book, story or page of text difference in your child’s reading fluency.
    with your child.
    10. Set aside reading practice time every day. Even five
    4. Have your child practice reading a simple book to share minutes of reading fluency practice using any of the
    with a younger sibling or another young child. Once your activities listed above will help to develop your child’s
    child is able to read the book fluently, ask them to share it reading fluency.
    with the other child. Both children will benefit from the
    reading experience.

    5. Poetry and nursery rhymes can be used to practice fluency.


    Take turns with your child reading a short poem or
    nursery rhyme until they can read it fluently.

    6. Use paired reading to build reading fluency with your


    child. First, you will read a poem or short passage to
    your child. Then, you and the child will read the poem or
    passage together several times. Finally, have your child
    read the poem or passage to you. Great books to use for
    paired reading are You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very
    Short Stories to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
    and other books by this author.

    We’re here to help


    Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic: 3100 Sycamore Road, Suite 2003, DeKalb, IL 60115
    815-753-1416 — literacyclinic@niu.edu

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