SLM Teaching Fluency

Fluency connects accurate decoding to real comprehension. This module helps you recognize what a reader needs and choose instruction that builds fluency.

In this module, you will:

• Explore reading fluency, its importance, and its links to other reading subskills
• Practice identifying instructional needs based on observed reading habits
• Identify appropriate texts and effective strategies for building fluency
• Learn to assess fluency and know when more intervention is needed

Part of the Structured Literacy Modules, a series that unpacks the research-based components of effective literacy instruction and how to apply them in direct teaching.

Audience: Students pursuing degrees in education as part of their school coursework; Administrators or school leaders needing to build background knowledge on literacy; Those preparing to take a reading certification exam; and any educator needing to build background knowledge on the topic.