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Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, and Vocabulary By Stuart Ackerman Reading is so much more than just sounding out words. In fact, there are 3 main components to successful reading: reading comprehension, reading fluency, and vocabulary. None of these skills are independent of the others. That is, your child must become proficient at all three in order to become a successful reader. Vocabulary Learning new words and how to pronounce them is referred to as ‘vocabulary development’. Students, at every grade level, must continue to increase the number of words that they know in order to read more difficult text. Reading Fluency The skill of reading words accurately and rapidly is referred to as ‘fluency’. Students must learn to read words at the appropriate pace in order to use reading comprehension strategies. Readers who are weak in fluency tend to read slowly as they focus on sounding out words. These readers find it difficult to work on reading comprehension skills because they are too busy decoding words. Reading Comprehension Children must learn specific reading strategies if they are to become successful readers. Reading strategies such as inferring, questioning, visualization, and cause and effect will enable your child to become active and engaged readers. These and other reading comprehension strategies will give your child the reading skills in order to succeed in math, science, history, and any other subject area, especially language. As you can clearly see, children must learn new vocabulary words in order to read them fluently. Once able to read fluently, students can incorporate reading strategies in order to comprehend what they read. ©Tutorgiant.com Tutorgiant.com provides complete Reading Comprehension lessons with worksheets. See some of the lessons in our video library.
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