Transcription of Assessing Reading Fluency - ed
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Pacific Resources for Education and LearningAssessingAssessingReadingReading FluencyFluencyTimothy V. Rasinski, Reading Fluencyis intended to assist practitioners in monitor-ing students Fluency development. Assessments are discussed in termsof three components of Fluency : Accuracy, or accurate decoding of words in text; Automaticity, or decoding words with minimal use ofattentional resources; and Prosody, or the appropriate use of phrasing and expression toconvey Reading Fluencyis written by Dr. Timothy V. Rasinski ( ,Ohio State University), a professor of education in the Department ofTeaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State has published over 100 articles and 10 books on various aspects ofreading education, including The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategiesfor Building Word Recognition, Fluency , and Comprehension. recently served on the Board of Directors of the InternationalReading Association and is an editor for the Journal of Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Educationand Learning would like to express sincere thanks to the followingreviewers:Dr.
ments themselves should resemble the ways in which reading fluen-cy is defined. In this booklet, fluency is defined in terms of three key components: accuracy in reading, automaticity in reading, and prosody (or expression) in reading. Moreover, since fluency is a con-tributor to overall reading proficiency, the fluency assessments pre-
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