Comments on: Reading Fluency: Part II – Helping Daniel http://www.reading2008.com/blog/reading-fluency-part-ii-%e2%80%93-helping-daniel.htm A Blog by Dr. Howard Margolis & Dr. Gary G. Brannigan Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ginny http://www.reading2008.com/blog/reading-fluency-part-ii-%e2%80%93-helping-daniel.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2889 Ginny Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:50:27 +0000 http://www.reading2008.com/blog/?p=2080#comment-2889 When I read the title of this blog I was immediately apprehensive. The push in our school system for reading "fluency" over the past 15 years has been enormous. However, the fluency that is pushed here is simply how fast a child can read the words in a passage (how many words per minute). As a former teacher, and now a parent of a learning disabled student, it saddens me to see the pressure that our school system is putting on these children to just spout out words on a page as fast as they can. This obviously will have no benefit to their comprehension skills. As your post points out, that is not the true meaning of fluency. I was delighted to read this post which points out all that fluency encompasses and it's relationship to reading comprehension. When I read the title of this blog I was immediately apprehensive. The push in our school system for reading “fluency” over the past 15 years has been enormous. However, the fluency that is pushed here is simply how fast a child can read the words in a passage (how many words per minute). As a former teacher, and now a parent of a learning disabled student, it saddens me to see the pressure that our school system is putting on these children to just spout out words on a page as fast as they can. This obviously will have no benefit to their comprehension skills. As your post points out, that is not the true meaning of fluency. I was delighted to read this post which points out all that fluency encompasses and it’s relationship to reading comprehension.

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