Fluency

Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. While fluency doesn’t ensure comprehension, comprehension is difficult without fluency.To comprehend texts, students must be able to decode fast enough and automatically enough to keep the content in short term memory so that meaning can be constructed. If a reader is stopping constantly to decode and figure out unknown words, the likelihood is that meaning will be disrupted or the process will become long and laborious.

(Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2001; Burns, & Doll, 1999; Pinnell & Fountas, 1998; Routman, 2000)

Parent Involvement in Fluency