We are passionate about supporting underachieving readers through reading fluency instruction here at HFL Education. Our impactful Reading Fluency Project has national acclaim and has supported almost 3000 pupils to close their reading gap and discover a love of reading.
Two HFL colleagues, Kathy Roe and Penny Slater, teamed up with the esteemed Dr Tim Rasinski, professor emeritus at Kent State University, to coin a Literacy Today article on reading fluency instruction. Alongside doctoral student, Abbey Galeza, they reported on the KS2 HFL Reading Fluency Project which supports readers aged 9 to 11 years old.
This article unearths some of the strategies adopted within the project, including echo reading and text marking, in which students highlight punctuation and emphasised words within a text. Strategies such as these are what help to elicit such astounding post-intervention results. Using the York Assessment of Reading Comprehension (YARC) to produce pre- and post-intervention reading ages, results indicate that the average comprehension gain for students engaging in the 8-week reading fluency intervention is 2.4 years!
To find out more about the Reading Fluency Project, you can email reading.fluency@hfleducation.org
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Find out more about the HFL Reading Fluency Project
