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Reading Fluency: Why the Whole Is More Than the Parts

Reading Fluency: Why the Whole Is More Than the Parts

Reading Fluency: Why the Whole Is More Than the Parts

Katzir, Wolf and colleagues show that fluency can't be reduced to its component skills.

Katzir, Wolf and colleagues show that fluency can't be reduced to its component skills.

Katzir, Wolf and colleagues show that fluency can't be reduced to its component skills.

Tami Katzir, Young-Suk Kim, Maryanne Wolf, et al.

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Katzir, Wolf and colleagues in Annals of Dyslexia (2006): fluency at the text level draws on the coordination of component skills, not just their individual strength — you can train every subskill and still not get a fluent reader. The case for teaching fluency in connected text.

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