Wondering if the reading gurus could give me some advice about reading. How do you teach the balance between sounding out laboriously and reading fluently, without "guessing"/making mistakes?
DD encouraged (fairly!) to work on fluency when reading. I think the constant encouragement to "sound it out" has meant that she felt she had to, even for words she knew (ie would say c-a-t, cat, even though she "recognises" it).
Her fluency is improving, but at the expense of accuracy (which was excellent when she was sounding out every word). For example today she had a book that had "splish, splash, splosh" in it. She read these as "splash splash splash". When asked to look closer, she was able to correct. I can totally see where the mistake has come from - by not laboriously sounding out each word, she has "assumed" the word splash which fits with context, and shape of word etc.
So, am I missing the point on fluency - or can you get fluency with 100% accuracy?!
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Reading - fluency vs "sounding it out"
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waitingforwombat · 11/10/2017 20:12
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