A couple of questions. How do you improve fluency? Is it just practice? Is it a developmental thing?
DS needs to improve fluency, he can decode well and typically will read his books with 100% accuracy. He has an average reading age I'd say but seems to be stuck at a level where he finds books 'easy' to read but his fluency hasn't developed in the way that would make him able to progress the next level.
I'd say his comprenhension was pretty good, better than his reading skills, but he appears to demonstrate quite a low level of understanding to his teacher at school? The teacher will ask a question about a character in a story to check his understanding eg 'why did the girl eat the ice cream' and he'll shrug or give an answer that suggests he hasn't understood.
Maybe it's not quite as good as I think but there seems to be a gulf between what he demonstrates at home and what he says to the teacher etc.
Any ideas? Is this common/uncommon Thanks
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Fluency and comprehension advice pls
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Cortina · 02/02/2010 10:58
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