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Reading Fluency Instruction: Moving Beyond Accuracy, Automaticity, and Prosody
Author(s) -
Rasinski Timothy
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.59.7.10
Subject(s) - automaticity , fluency , psychology , reading (process) , prosody , reading comprehension , comprehension , expression (computer science) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , computer science , cognition , philosophy , mathematics education , neuroscience , programming language
Three key elements of reading fluency are accuracy in word decoding, automaticity in recognizing words, and appropriate use of prosody or meaningful oral expression while reading. These three components are a gateway to comprehension. Readers must be able to decode words correctly and effortlessly (automaticity) and then put them together into meaningful phrases with the appropriate expression to make sense of what they read.