By Tim Shanahan with Jan Hasbrouck
Teacher Question:
A question has come up that I don’t know how to address and I would love your input. For years, we have used the Hasbrouck/Tindal fluency norms as one of the ways we measure our student’s reading progress. For example, the 4th grade midyear 50th percentile is 112 CWPM. […]
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With an understanding of what fluency is and how to assess it, let’s turn to the questions that teachers are always most interested in: What should fluency instruction look like? And, what can I do to help students whose fluency is far behind their peers’?
Research over the past two decades has identified repeated […]
Read More....By Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal
Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal completed an extensive study of oral reading fluency in 2004. The results of their study are published in a technical report entitled, “Oral Reading Fluency: 90 Years of Measurement,” which is available on the University of Oregon’s website.
This table shows the oral reading fluency rates […]
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After more than 20 years as the neglected goal of reading instruction (Allington, 1983; NICHD, 2000), fluency has finally become the hot topic among reading researchers, professional development providers, and teachers. These days it is rare to pick up a reading journal, attend a professional conference, or sit in a faculty staff room […]
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