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Reading FluencyReading to LearnReading fluency is the next step for your reading lessons once you have taught your child to read. Your child is ready to do what educators call reading to learn. In order to use reading as an effective learning tool, a student must be a fluent reader. This typically happens around 9-10 years of age. Someone who reads fluently can focus on comprehension, because the decoding, or "sounding out", of words is automatic. Until this time: Children should practice reading a little bit every day until it becomes automatic. You know it’s automatic if they read with minimal “decoding” breaks. Continue to read aloud to your child. Stop every now and then and ask them to describe a character or what is happening in the plot. This checks their comprehension of the content and is sometimes called narration or visualization. If they have trouble with this for read alouds, they will probably have trouble comprehending content from books they read on their own. Continue teaching reading and exploring. Children who have a broad knowledge base have an easier time understanding what they are reading. Once children are automatic readers, can narrate and visualize well, and have a broad knowledge base, they are ready to use their reading skills as learning tools. |
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