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Reading Fluency and Its Intervention: The Paper That Defined Fluency

Wolf & Katzir-Cohen's 2001 paper gave the field a working definition of reading fluency, and a map for teaching it.

Wolf & Katzir-Cohen's 2001 paper gave the field a working definition of reading fluency, and a map for teaching it.

Wolf & Katzir-Cohen's 2001 paper gave the field a working definition of reading fluency, and a map for teaching it.

Maryanne Wolf & Tami Katzir-Cohen

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The 2001 paper in Scientific Studies of Reading that gave the field its working definition of fluency: developmental, component-based, and teachable.

Presents a developmental- and component-based definition of reading fluency [and] discusses how different types of current fluency interventions correspond to particular components in fluency’s structure and to particular phases of its development.

— from the ERIC abstract

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.