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- ISSN: 1074-4762
- E-ISSN: 1943-3069
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Bumps In The Road:There Is More to Fluency than Speed and Accuracy
- Source: Voices from the Middle, Volume 14, Issue 4, May 2007, p. 55 - 56
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- 01 May 2007
Abstract
Fluency is another concept whose many definitions lead to widely differing practices. It is easy to understand that reading words on a page does not make a person fluent if they don’t take away meaning from that reading. Hedrick asks that teachers and administrators examine policies that let speed and accuracy in reading substitute for meaning making.
© 2007 by the National Council of Teachers of English