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Anecdotally, some fluent readers fail the check, and fail it more than once.
Many spend several years in 9th and 10th grade before dropping out, never becoming fluent readers.
However, there's no danger of that, because they aren't fluent readers or writers.
In play-based kindergartens and preschools, teachers intentionally design language and literacy experiences which help prepare children to become fluent readers.
Fluent readers can average a rate of 200-400 words per minute, so there is only so much content that one person can get through in a day.
Fluent readers perceive each word, or even whole phrases, as a single, remembered unit, whereas those still learning see jumbles of letters that they have to string together; in that case, pronouncing them helps.
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He became a fluent reader and writer of English.
For a typical, fluent reader, the average size of a saccade is about eight letters.
"I think it's just more comfortable and — I hate to say easier — but it more meets the needs of somebody who might not be a fluent reader".
With the gain in time and the freed-up brainpower, Wolf suggests, a fluent reader is able to integrate more of her own thoughts and feelings into her experience.
If the child is a less fluent reader, then reading something that's a little bit longer and more of a challenge, like Harry Potter, even if they only read two books during the summer, well, they've done it.
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