Arkansas Foundations of Reading Exam Fluency 2

Question 1

A teacher has students read the same passage three times, tracking their WCPM each time. This strategy is called:

Accepted Answer

Repeated reading

Answer

Repeated reading involves multiple oral readings of the same text to increase automaticity, rate, and expression.

Question 2

During echo reading, the teacher's role is to:

Accepted Answer

Read a sentence or phrase aloud, then have students repeat it immediately

Answer

In echo reading, the teacher models fluent reading of a segment and students immediately echo it back, providing a model and guided practice simultaneously.

Question 3

Which of the following reading fluency norms benchmark would be considered on-grade-level for a typical second grader in spring?

Accepted Answer

90–100 WCPM

Answer

Hasbrouck and Tindal's ORF norms place the 50th percentile for second grade in spring at approximately 89–100 WCPM.

Question 4

A student's oral reading is fast but contains many errors and lacks expression. This pattern suggests the student is:

Accepted Answer

Sacrificing accuracy for speed, indicating fluency is not truly developed

Answer

True fluency requires all three components—accuracy, rate, and prosody; high rate with low accuracy indicates the student has not achieved genuine fluency.

Question 5

Which student behavior is the best indicator that a student's fluency skills are breaking down due to word-level difficulty?

Accepted Answer

Frequent self-corrections and re-readings of difficult words

Answer

Frequent hesitations, re-readings, and self-corrections at the word level signal that decoding demands are taxing the student's cognitive resources, impairing fluency.

Arkansas Foundations of Reading Exam Practice Test

Arkansas Foundations of Reading Exam Practice Test

Arkansas Foundations of Reading Exam Fluency 2