![]() ![]() Struggling readers often have problems with reading fluently. The more fluid and fast you read, your understanding of what you read becomes automatic and more fun. Reading can become an enjoyable activity for everyone. When you work on improving your reading fluency, you inherently improve your reading comprehension. Short, daily reading fluency activities are a perfect way to not only read faster, more fluidly, and efficiently but to also improve confidence. Repeated reading is another type of reading fluency practice. This is where a student reads a single passage multiple times in order to reach accuracy and improve their speed of reading the passage. ![]() This process typically improves the student’s ability to read automatically without pronunciation errors while maintaining their comprehension of the reading selection. When working on repeated reading, the focus is on reading quality rather than on reading speed. Choral ReadingsĬhoral reading is where students read along with a more experienced reader. Several students can also simultaneously choral read together with a more experienced reader. Choral reading helps the student pick up reading fluency, expression, and intonation. Choral reading can help struggling readers practice reading fluency. Paired reading is another way to improve reading fluency. In this strategy, students take turns reading the text to each other. This can also be done by a parent reading a paragraph or page and the student reads the next paragraph or page. We did this often as a family, taking turns with each child reading a paragraph or page, and then the next one would read, or I would read. Alternating readings are great for students to be able to understand the correct intonation of sentences. Sometimes, when people talk about fluency, they just mean speaking a language well.Echo ReadingĮcho reading is perfect to help struggling readers. For some people, speaking English fluently just means having a good general level of English. However, fluency is more specific than that. Fluency means you can speak smoothly, without stopping or hesitating. One side is physical: your mouth needs to produce and connect English sounds and words in a fast, smooth way. The other side of fluency is mental: your brain needs to find the right words and build English sentences quickly and smoothly. Rule Number One: Get Out There and Speak! To speak English fluently, you need to work on both sides: physical and mental.īut first… 2. There are many things you can do to improve your English fluency. However, if you want to become more fluent, there’s really one thing you have to do. Talk to people and have conversations regularly. Nothing else you can do is as important as this. Reading English will improve your reading. Practicing listening will improve your listening.īut what about speaking? Nothing will help your speaking except speaking. It’s not an academic subject it’s not something you can learn from a book. It’s more like doing a sport or playing a musical instrument: you need to practice regularly to make any progress. There’s no maximum, but I’d recommend you need to spend at least 2-3 hours a week speaking English if you want to improve. Go to classes, talk to expats in your city, join groups or activities with English-speakers, find a conversation partner online, do a language exchange there are many possibilities!īy the way, what you do doesn’t have to be language-focused. I’m going to take a guess here about what many of you are thinking right now: “But I don’t have people to talk to” “But I’m shy” “But it’s too difficult.” You can go to English classes to practice your speaking, but anything you do which is in English and which will make you speak English is just as good. After you finish this lesson, you will also want to watch another lesson from Oxford Online English: Feel Less Shy Speaking English. Situations which would be easy in your language can feel difficult in another language. Situations which would feel difficult in your language can feel almost impossible when you have to do them in a foreign language. It’s easy to imagine when you start learning another language that you will reach a point where everything is easy and comfortable. Unless you live in a foreign country and live completely inside that culture, that won’t happen. Trust me-I’ve studied several languages at this point, and speak them quite well, but it never feels easy or comfortable. ![]()
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