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Our students are getting low scores in reading comprehension. Why aren’t we focusing on that instead of fluency?

April 26, 2017fluency focusing low reading comprehension scores students

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Our students are getting low scores in reading comprehension. Why aren’t we focusing on that instead of fluency?

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Low comprehension scores can mean many things. They might mean that your students have poor knowledge of word meanings or that their fluency is limited, or that they lack strategies for making sense of a text. We need to address all areas of reading progress; fluency is just one of them.