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How fluency and feeling support reading for pleasure.

How fluency and feeling support reading for pleasure.By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 22/07/2024

Reading fluency is in part, about safety. How safe does this child feel in this situation? Can they let their guard down and allow the text to absorb them, or do they always need to maintain a sense of control of their learning situation?

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How fluency and feeling support reading for pleasure.

Finding fluency, flow and comprehension

Finding fluency, flow and comprehensionBy: Dr Marion Long Published on: 20/05/2024

One of the most mysterious aspects of reading for pleasure is that it is possible to 'get lost' in a book. Reading fluency and comprehension draw us deeper into the text where we might feel that we have 'escaped', as we drop into a 'flow' state.

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Finding fluency, flow and comprehension

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How rhythm defines phonemic awareness

“It’s only an hour that they have with your over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.”

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