Reading Fluency Studies

Maryanne Wolf is a prominent researcher and the Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University in Massachusetts. In this collection, Wolf shares her research on the various aspects of teaching fluency.

Fluency" has become a buzzword in the arena of reading instruction, but it can be difficult to define as a term -- and an even harder to incorporate into your curriculum as a concept. Here, Maryanne Wolf shares her research and expertise to help teachers understand the basics of fluency: precisely what fluency is, how to measure student success, and ways to help students become fluent readers.

Maryanne explains the complexity and importance of fluent reading. What is fluency? Listen

Articles

Instruction for Fluent Reading
by Maryanne Wolf
Put theory to practice with these instructional sample resources on fluency.

Common Questions About Fluency
by Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf answers our questions about reading fluency.What is it? Why do so many readers have difficulty becoming fluent readers? How can we predict who is going to have trouble becoming fluent ? What contributes to fluency?

New Research on an Old Problem: A Brief History of Fluency
by Maryanne Wolf
A survey of the history of research on reading fluency examines the complicated interaction between the child and the development of reading skills.

Resources for Teaching Fluency
by Maryanne Wolf
Important resources on developing fluency to help you implement theory into good teaching practice.

Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5
January 1,1999
Use the Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator when you administer tests. Oral Fluency Assessment is a way to predict comprehension ability, determine reading fluency, and establish whether students need to be further assessed for decoding.

Resources

Fluency Assessment Why and How
Fluency Assessment Why and How explains the reasoning behind the need to test students for reading fluency.

Oral Reading Fluency Check-Up and the San Diego Quick Assessment
A checklist and a copy of the San Diego Quick Assessment are both intended to aid in reading fluency assessment.

How to Fit Fluency Into Your Schedule
Maryanne Wolf discusses the need to schedule time in reading to develop fluency in readers.

One Quick and Easy Fluency Lesson
Maryanne Wolf offers a reading fluency lesson for use in your classroom or to suggest to your tutors.

Repeated Readings and Repeated-Reading Chart
For work on reading fluency, Maryanne Wolf suggests a repeated-reading chart.