Reading Fluency Flashcards
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DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is commonly used to:
Answer: Screen and monitor students' early literacy and fluency development
DIBELS is a widely used battery of fluency-based early literacy measures designed for universal screening and progress monitoring.
A student reads 120 words in one minute and makes 8 errors. Her correct words per minute (CWPM) score is:
Answer: 112 CWPM
CWPM = total words read minus errors; 120 - 8 = 112 CWPM.
When a student reads with inappropriate phrasing — ignoring punctuation and pausing in odd places — the teacher should address:
Answer: Prosody and phrasing in oral reading
Ignoring punctuation and pausing incorrectly is a prosody issue; the teacher should model appropriate phrasing and provide practice with marked phrase boundaries.
Which factor most directly impacts a student's reading fluency on a new, unfamiliar text?
Answer: The percentage of words the student can automatically recognize
Fluency on a text depends heavily on automatic recognition of the words in it; if many words require effortful decoding, fluency will break down.
A teacher has students tape-record themselves reading a passage, then re-read and record again after feedback. This technique is an example of:
Answer: Repeated reading with self-reflection
Recording and comparing multiple readings of the same text is a form of repeated reading that builds fluency and encourages self-monitoring.
Reading fluency norms established by Hasbrouck and Tindal are useful for teachers because they:
Answer: Provide grade-level benchmarks for expected CWPM scores at different times of year
Hasbrouck and Tindal's norms provide fall, winter, and spring CWPM benchmarks by grade level, helping teachers identify students who need support.