Fluency Class - 1 IMPROVING READING FLUENCY Andrew P. Johnson, Ph.D. Professor, Distinguished Faculty Scholar Minnesota State University Mankato, Minnesota andrew.johnson@mnsu.edu Reading fluency is the ability to quickly process text. Reading fluency is correlated with word identify, conceptual knowledge, and comprehension. This course provides an overview of reading fluency and a variety of strategies that can be used to develop students’ ability to process text quickly. READINGS Chapter 12: Fluency, Corwin (see below) Chapter 13: More Fluency, Guildford (see below) VIDEO LECTURES Reading Process and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isgKwnNpoAw Overview: Reading Fluency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705KOj97n9c Repeated Reading: Short Passage Fluency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7sYr1iQXNM&list=PLtvxUlJdr92D4SQsiyKv1m48N9v8NgPkz Repeated Reading in a Large Group Setting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUCWW_ylSw Fluency Strategy: Really Silly Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75nLTgQh_zU&list=PLtvxUlJdr92D4SQsiyKv1m48N9v8NgPkz&in dex=2 Reading Fluency and Wide Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnE29ReEpw Fluency Strategy: Sentence Replay