Fluency

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Fluency
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Activity Imagine yourself a student

• That was when I saw the pendulum. The turgid
  sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the
  ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with
  isochronal majesty. I knew- but anyone could have
  sensed it in the magic of that serene breathing-
  that the period was governed by the square root
  of the length of the wire and by ? , that number
  which, however irrational to sublunar minds,
  through a higher rationality binds the
  circumference and diameter of all possible
  circles. The time it took the sphere to swing
  from end to end was determined by an arcane
  conspiracy between the most timeless of measures
  the singularity of the point of suspension, the
  duality of the planes dimensions , the triadic
  beginning of ?, the secret quadratic nature of
  the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the
  circle itself.

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Are We Fluent Readers?

• That was when I saw the pendulum. The turgid
  sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the
  ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with
  isochronal majesty. I knew- but anyone could have
  sensed it in the magic of that serene
  breathing-that the period was governed by the
  square root of the length of the wire and by ? ,
  that number which, however irrational to sublunar
  minds, through a higher rationality binds the
  circumference and diameter of all possible
  circles. The time it took the sphere to swing
  from end to end was determined by an arcane
  conspiracy between the most timeless of measures
  the singularity of the point of suspension, the
  duality of the planes dimensions , the triadic
  beginning of ?, the secret quadratic nature of
  the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the
  circle itself.

Word Count 141 Singletons 17
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Activity Group Work
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What is Fluency?

• Fluency refers to the readers ability to read
  accurately, quickly, in appropriate syntactic
  phrases or text chunks, and above all, with
  meaningful and appropriate expression.
• Rasinski and Padak

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The development of reading fluency has been a
neglected part of reading instruction despite the
fact that many reading authorities consider it to
be an important part of the reading
curriculum. Reutzel and Hollingsworth, 1993
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Fluency Develops Over Time
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading http//reading.uo
regon.edu
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Why Teach for Fluency?

• The most compelling reason to focus
  instruction on fluency is the strong correlation
  between reading fluency and reading
  comprehension.
• Richard
  Allington

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Look at the chart and say the COLOR not the WORD.
blue
yellow
orange
green
red
yellow
red
purple
orange
green
blue red
purple green
blue orange