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Six Minute Solution
By imalith

I use this program to improve fluency. Fluency is a necessary component for a reader to understand a text.

I first test students at their oral reading level and then give them passages at their fluency level for
practice. I pull out kids that are very low in fluency and listen to them read their passages. This is not comprehension in any way. It is good reading practice and helps students improve their ability to read with expression. I would compare it to doing mulitplication timings in a math class. Readers need automaticity for comprehension and stumbling over words makes it impossible

to comprehend. Just like in math, if you are teaching a higher level concept and a child is struggling to remember the answer to 7x7=?, they will not be able to grasp the concept you are working towards.

The program itself does not inform my instruction, rather the evaluation of the reader's fluency guides how I will use the program to enhance the child's ability to read. If a reader is already reading a grade level passage at 150 wpm and pausing properly at punctuation, they don't need fluency.

I hope this helps.