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Building Fluency: Do It Well and Do It Right!

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Slide contains an image of a wagon wheel. The words Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics are on the spokes and the words Successful Readers is in the middle.

This graphic shows that phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills are all necessary to develop successful readers. A comprehensive reading program addresses all of the elements. In today’s session, we will be zooming in on the fluency component.