1.4.1 Reading Fluency

• Components of reading fluency: accuracy, rate and expression
• Reading aloud with appropriate pace and phrasing
• Punctuation as a guide to phrasing and intonation
• Strategies for improving fluency

• read a text accurately at an appropriate rate
• read aloud with appropriate expression and phrasing
• use punctuation marks as guides to phrasing
• appreciate the role of fluency in comprehension

“Why does reading faster sometimes mean understanding less?”

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1. What fluent reading is
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Three things happening at once, and why speed alone is not the goal.
2. Improving your fluency
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Practical methods that work, and how to measure whether you are improving.
3. Phrasing a text for listeners
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Using punctuation and phrase boundaries so a listener can follow who did what.
4. Fluency that serves meaning
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Proving that accuracy, rate and expression exist so the reader and the listener understand.