ERIC Number: EJ876266
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Mar
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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One-Minute Fluency Measures: Mixed Messages in Assessment and Instruction
Deeney, Theresa A.
Reading Teacher, v63 n6 p440-450 Mar 2010
Although they are valid and reliable, one-minute fluency measures are defining and capturing a reduced view of fluency as simply accuracy and rate in oral reading. Thus, they may lead astray our understanding of struggling readers' reading fluency development and instructional needs. Fluency is a complicated construct. The author discusses a deeper view of fluency and presents critical aspects of a deeper view that are missing from one-minute assessments--namely, reasons for dysfluency and the effects of time. The author provides suggestions for fluency assessment and instruction that take a deeper view of fluency into account. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Reading Instruction, Student Needs, Time Factors (Learning), Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Measures (Individuals), Reading Difficulties, Elementary Education, Difficulty Level
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7
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Language: English
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