WPM WPM Reading Fluency & Speed 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which instructional practice BEST supports fluency development through social interaction?
- Silent sustained reading
- Partner reading or paired reading (Correct answer)
- Independent reading logs
- Timed tests only
Correct answer: Partner reading or paired reading
Partner or paired reading provides immediate corrective feedback, modeling, and motivation, making it one of the most effective social fluency strategies.
Question 2: What is 'reader's theater' primarily used to develop in students?
- Decoding accuracy through phonics repetition
- Fluency and prosody through dramatic, purposeful repeated reading (Correct answer)
- Comprehension via close reading
- Vocabulary through context clues
Correct answer: Fluency and prosody through dramatic, purposeful repeated reading
Reader's theater motivates students to practice a script repeatedly to perform it expressively, building fluency and prosody in an engaging context.
Question 3: A student reads at 180 WCPM but shows poor comprehension. This pattern is best described as:
- Dyslexia
- Word callers — fast decoding without meaning-making (Correct answer)
- Reading fluency disorder
- Phonological deficit
Correct answer: Word callers — fast decoding without meaning-making
Word callers decode rapidly and accurately but fail to construct meaning, highlighting that fluency alone does not guarantee comprehension.
Question 4: When conducting a 1-minute oral reading fluency (ORF) probe, the teacher should:
- Allow unlimited time and record total words read
- Have the student read for exactly 60 seconds, then mark errors and calculate WCPM (Correct answer)
- Ask comprehension questions after each sentence
- Let the student choose the passage
Correct answer: Have the student read for exactly 60 seconds, then mark errors and calculate WCPM
ORF probes are standardized: the student reads for exactly 60 seconds while the teacher marks errors, then subtracts errors from total words read for WCPM.
Question 5: Which error type is NOT counted as an error when scoring an oral reading fluency probe?
- Substitution of one word for another
- Omission of a word
- Self-correction within 3 seconds (Correct answer)
- Mispronunciation
Correct answer: Self-correction within 3 seconds
Self-corrections made promptly (within 3 seconds) are not scored as errors because they demonstrate active monitoring and correction of reading.
Question 6: Silent reading fluency differs from oral reading fluency primarily in that it:
- Cannot be measured reliably
- Eliminates the need for prosody and focuses on reading rate and comprehension (Correct answer)
- Is only appropriate for advanced readers
- Requires louder phonemic processing
Correct answer: Eliminates the need for prosody and focuses on reading rate and comprehension
Silent reading fluency is assessed through rate and comprehension measures rather than prosody, since no oral production is involved.
WPM WPM Reading Fluency & Speed 2
Which instructional practice BEST supports fluency development through social interaction?