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Becoming a Fluent Reader

Audience: Primary Teaching Staff
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 1

This recorded webinar course will investigate ways to improve fluency in reading across the primary school, exploring what it means to be a fluent reader, and how we can support children to improve their reading stamina and fluency.

  • To know what fluent reading is like.
  • To understand those pedagogies which may be helpful or unhelpful in encouraging children to become more confident, independent readers.
  • Delegates will be better informed about precise definitions of fluency;
  • Delegates will know a range of different teaching and learning strategies which will build pupils' stamina for reading;
  • Delegates will know more about 'efficient reading' rather than simply reading faster.
  • Know what fluent reading is like: what does it mean?
  • Barriers to fluency.
  • Reading speed and assessment.
  • Progression of fluency through the primary school.
  • Strategies and approaches which support fluency.