Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Exam Fluency & Oral Language Development Flashcards

What are the three main components of reading fluency?

Answer: Accuracy, rate, and prosody

Reading fluency consists of accuracy (reading words correctly), rate (reading at an appropriate speed), and prosody (reading with expression and phrasing).

What is prosody in the context of reading fluency?

Answer: Reading with appropriate expression, phrasing, and intonation

Prosody refers to the expressive qualities of oral reading, including appropriate phrasing, intonation, stress, and rhythm that reflect the reader's comprehension.

Which instructional strategy is most effective for building reading fluency?

Answer: Repeated reading of the same text with corrective feedback

Repeated reading with corrective feedback is among the most well-supported strategies for improving reading fluency, allowing students to refine skills across multiple attempts.

What is the relationship between oral language development and reading fluency?

Answer: Strong oral language skills provide a foundation for fluent reading by developing prosodic patterns

Oral language development, including knowledge of prosodic patterns and sentence structures, directly supports reading fluency by helping readers apply natural speech rhythms to text.

How is oral reading fluency (ORF) typically assessed?

Answer: By counting words read correctly per minute on grade-level passages

Oral reading fluency is commonly assessed using curriculum-based measures that count words read correctly per minute on grade-level passages.

What distinguishes a fluent reader from a non-fluent reader during oral reading?

Answer: Fluent readers read accurately with appropriate rate and expression without laboring over words

Fluent readers read with accuracy, appropriate pace, and prosody, freeing cognitive resources to be directed toward comprehension rather than word-level decoding.