"It's so important to remember that students don't develop automaticity via decoding but rather through repeated exposure to a word they can decode."
I like how Beers really tried to hammer in the fact that reading automaticity will lead to fluency. I also like how she pointed out the fact that when we think we are helping students by providing them with the word we are helping them out. I will be the first to say it is hard to listen to a struggling reader read aloud when they have problems with fluency and I do have problems myself with just giving them the word they are searching for, and I will work on that.
My two favorite improving fluency suggestions from Beers is:
#2 Give varied opportunities to hear texts (I think this is important so that we can really help the reader connect with the text.)
#3 Give the students the opportunity to reread. (We have heard from Beers earlier how important and beneficial it can be to reread a text with her To Kill a Mocking Bird reference.)
Yours Reading,
Sara
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