Overview of Fluency Reading Plan
Reading fluency requires an individual to have proficiency in recognizing, decoding, and reading out words with fast speed and appropriate intonation. The process requires automaticity which is the quick and accurate recognition of words and letters and their respective sounds. Automaticity not only helps in attaining reading proficiency, but it also frees cognitive resources of the brain used in meaning processing. Lack of fluency may make reading laborious and not enjoyable. As reading increases with the grades, students need to develop their reading skills from the lower grades (Tompkins, 2010).
Development of reading fluency can be attained through the improvement of students’ decoding skills and regular practice in reading. Texts used in teaching fluency should sustain reading interest so as to ensure students can read and re-read them regularly. The direct method of teaching fluency uses repetitive reading done under the pressure of timing, whilst the indirect method uses tactics that encourage students to develop an interest in reading so as to do their own regular and sustained self-reading (Tompkins, 2010).
Repetitive reading should emphasize speed rather than accuracy, because considerations of accuracy limit the speed of reading. The student’s progress can be graphed in the use of this method, and thus serving a motivational purpose on the student Scolastic.com, (2010). On the other hand, the indirect approach allows students to choose reading material that is of interest to them so as to find pleasure in reading that can motivate them to read on. The indirect method works well if it is done in groupings.
It also has the effect of encouraging more reading through peer pressure-students develop an interest to read what their peers have read too. Assessments should not be used in this method so as to foster continuous reading interest-reading for fun and not for assessments. Improvement of word recognition and comprehension greatly increases reading fluency and allows cognition processing and this improves with more practicing of reading.
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