Domain 3 - Fluency

Question 1

Competency 8

Answer 1

understand the role of fluency in reading development and factors that affect student’s development of fluency

Question 2

accuracy

Answer 2

accurate decoding and word recognition (running record determines accuracy)

Question 3

rate

Answer 3

reading a text in an appropriate rate of speed (not too fast or not too slow)

Question 4

prosody

Answer 4

reading with approporiate expression and putting emphasis on certain words with a variation in pitch and pausing

readers need to master all 3 of these components to become fluent readers

Question 5

automaticity theory

Answer 5

that reading requires the reader to perform and 2 main taksk: decode words and understand the meaning of text
the reader does not stop to decode words or figure out punctuation and can focus on the meaning of the text and comprehension of the text

Question 6

Competency 8 Key points

Answer 6

• Fluency includes all components of reading (decoding, comprehension, word analysis skills, vocabulary, background knowledge) so ….Text MUST be at students’ independent reading level (show Running record)
• If student is weak in word analysis skills, stops to decode frequently and lacks familiarity of content vocabulary then.. text is too hard to meet fluency rate
• Independent silent reading is NOT effective if the student struggles with above. Students reading out loud is best.

Question 7

For fluency students MUST

Answer 7

• Decode quickly
• Comprehend text
• have good background knowledge of content in text
• know key terms and vocabulary at their level

Question 8

Competency 9

Answer 8

understand how to promote student’s fluency development

Question 9

Competency 9 strategies

Answer 9

Phase-cued reading
Echo Reading
Choral reading

Question 10

Competency 9 strategies

Phase-cued reading

Answer 10

text that is chosen by teacher and marked (to help students pause and stop) the teacher models reading it first then students practice (improves prosody)

Question 11

Competency 9 strategies

Echo reading

Answer 11

teacher reads passage aloud and the students read it out loud

Question 12

Competency 9 strategies

Choral reading

Answer 12

teacher and student read together

Question 13

Differentiation for Competency 9 strategies

Answer 13

• have students READ ALOUD (oral reading)
• readers theatre
• rhyming book
• echo reading (model, expression, accuracy prosody and rate)