What is fluency?

What is fluency?

Fluency is the ability to read “like you speak.” Hudson, Lane, and Pullen define fluency this way: “Reading fluency is made up of at least three key elements: accurate reading of connected text, at a conversational rate, with appropriate prosody or expression.” Non-fluent readers suffer in at least one of these aspects of reading: they make many mistakes, they read slowly, or they don’t read with appropriate expression and phrasing.

Fluency. (2017). Retrieved July 15, 2017, from https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5-components-of-reading/fluency