Fluency is a combination of three things: rate, expression and accuracy. We are going to be really focusing on these three big items for the rest of the school year!
Rate is also known as pacing. Rate means that we are reading not too fast, not too slow, but at the just the right speed so that we can understand what we are reading. Today, I used the example a speed limit sign. The sign helps us know how fast to drive (since we do not have police officers pulling us over when we read) it is our jobs as readers to monitor our speed on our own.
Expression or prosody- is the ability to read like we talk. We should use punctuation to help us read with the correct expression. Questions to ask yourself as you read: Do I sound like a robot? Do I use different voices? Do I change my tone?
Accuracy is how many words we can read correctly in the passage or story. If we are stopping to decode every other word we don't have a chance to keep the correct rate or expression. Accuracy is gained through memorization of sight words, word families and reading exposure.
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