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Building Fluency: Do It Well and Do It Right!

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What is Fluency?

• Speed + Accuracy = Fluency
• Reading quickly and in a meaningful way (prosody)
• Decoding and comprehending simultaneously
• Freedom from word identification problems
• Fluency is derived from the Latin word fluens which means "to flow"
• Smooth and effortless reading