Teacher Rose welcomes students to an online class on fluency. The objectives are to define fluency, demonstrate its importance in reading, and apply fluency skills to reading drills. Fluency refers to the ability to read accurately, smoothly, and with expression, and is important because it bridges word recognition and comprehension. There are three components of fluency: accuracy in word recognition, reading speed or rate, and prosody which is stress, intonation, and pauses. Other literacy areas like phonological awareness, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation are also related to fluency.

1. FLUENCY
With Teacher Rose

2. HELLO, DEAR STUDENTS!
WELCOME TO OUR
ONLINE CLASS!
I hope you are as ready as I am to start teaching and
please have fun. We're in this together, so let's
respect and support each other. Good luck!

3. THE MORE YOU READ
TODAY, THE MORE YOU
ARE GOING TO LEARN.
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4. Our Objectives for today's lesson:
Define what is Fluency and
be able to demonstrate the
importance of Fluency in
Reading.
Apply the learnings about
Fluency in reading dril
Demonstrates an
understanding of
punctuation marks,
rhythm, pacing, intonation,
and vocal patterns as a
guide for fluent reading
and speaking.

5. What is
Fluency?

6. READING FLUENCY IS THE ABILITY
TO READ ACCURATELY, SMOOTHLY
AND WITH EXPRESSION.
Fluency is a wonderful bridge to
comprehension and to a lifelong love of
reading.

7. WHY IS FLUENCY
IMPORTANT?
They can make connections between what
they are reading and their own background
knowledge.
Fluency is important because it bridges
between word recognition and comprehension.

8. CONNECTION TO
READING
Children who can read accurately, quickly,
and with expression will have an easier time
understanding what they read because they
will not be stuck on sounding out words.

9. THE 3
COMPONENTS OF
FLUENCY

10. 1. ACCURACY
• Refers to the person's
ability to read words in
a text automatically.

11. 2. RATE (Speed of Reading)
• The speed a person reads.It has
a huge impact on the learner's
fluency.

12. 3. PROSODY
• Refers to stress,
intonation, and pauses.
Commonly known as
"reading with feeling.”

13. Reading fluency is an important
focus of literacy teaching and can
be thought of in two different but
complementary ways

14. Reading fluency has a
qualitative definition
• referring to the quality of students' reading. This includes the
use of rhythm, phrasing, intonation, naturalness, and use of
voice (for different characters/moods).
Reading fluency also has
a quantitative definition
• referring to the accuracy (number of errors, compared to the
number of correct words read) and the rate (number of
words read per minute).

15. WHAT OTHER AREAS OF LITERACY
RELATE TO FLUENCY?
• FLUENCY IS RELATED TO OTHER DECODING
FOCUSES, INCLUDING PHONOLOGICAL
AWARENESS AND
• ANOTHER AREA THAT SUPPORTS FLUENT
READING IS VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE
(INCLUDING MORPHOLOGY).
• FINALLY, AWARENESS OF SENTENCE
STRUCTURE (GRAMMAR) AND PUNCTUATION IS
ALSO LINKED TO FLUENCY (PARTICULARLY
RHYTHM, PHRASING, AND INTONATION).

16. KEY CONCEPTS
• Grammar and punctuation
Another component of the teaching of fluency is the teaching
of grammar and punctuation. This can include (but is not
limited to) the following:
• Discussing word types: noun, adjective, verb, adverb,
preposition, determiner, etc.
• Explaining differences between commas, full stops,
colons, semicolons, exclamation points.

17. Developing fluency
• Opportunities for developing reading fluency
include:
• Modelled reading
• Shared reading
• Guided reading
• Peer reading
• Choral reading
• Readers’ theatre

18. FLUENT READERS:
• Recognize words automatically
• Read aloud effortlessly and with
expression
• Do not have to concentrate on
decoding
• Can focus on comprehension

19. WE HAVE TO KEEP IN
MIND THAT READING FLUENCY IS A
RESULT OF STRONG INSTRUCTION
IN OUR OTHER CORE COMPONENTS
OF LITERACY: PHONOLOGICAL
AWARENESS, PHONICS, AND
VOCABULARY.

20. Email Address
roseshenlyalcover2001@g
mail.com
Mobile Number
123-456-7890
Consultation Hours
1pm to 4pm
QUESTIONS?
CLARIFICATIONS?
Please feel free to contact me,
Teacher Rose, through email or phone.