Module 2

Reading fluency, the ability to read with accuracy, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression, serves as the critical bridge between decoding skills and reading comprehension. In this concise, research-based microcourse, you'll explore the multidimensional nature of fluency and learn practical strategies for honing this skill across diverse student reading profiles. This course will provide you with assessment tools and instructional approaches for each aspect of fluency.

Whether you're working with emergent readers learning to decode or transitional readers ready to enhance their expression, you'll leave with a toolbox of whole-class and small-group instructional approaches. Transform your students' reading experience by helping them develop the fluency skills that unlock the meaning and joy of text.

Learning Objectives:

• Define reading fluency and its components based on current reading research frameworks.
• Assess students' fluency skills using purposeful tools to identify specific areas of need in accuracy, rate, and prosody.
• Design and implement targeted instructional support to improve students' reading accuracy through explicit phonics instruction and appropriate text selection.
• Apply evidence-based strategies to enhance reading rate, including various forms of repeated reading practice and building automaticity of multiple words.
• Teach and assess prosodic elements of fluency, including appropriate expression, phrasing, and attention to punctuation.
• Integrate fluency instruction into daily literacy routines through efficient 10-minute whole-class or small-group activities.