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What is Fluency?
What is Fluency?
While its importance is well known, there is not one agreeed upon definition for fluency. Fuchs, Fuchs, Hosp, and Jenkins (2001) describe fluency as the accuracy and speed in which text is reproduced into spoken language. The NRP (2000) described fluent readers with an additional consideration of proper expression when reading orally. Proper expression, or prosody, requires readers to use intonation, stress, and duration to determine proper phonological phrasing in a sentence (Schreiber, 1980). Students need constant practice reading authentic text to build fluency and they need to hear fluent readers reading authentic text to build prosody, daily.
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