Small Group Reading Instruction

Until the 70's fluency was not studied extensively as a reading component, but people have found that fluency is integral to successful comprehension. The author states that fluency is effected by automacity and prosody. I thought that it was very interesting that the most effective way of enhancing fluency is by doing repeated reading orally. Intermediate readers should be doing this in small group instruction, and even advanced readers are advised to work on this at home. In the classroom this could manifest in a couple of different ways: reader's theatre, choral reading, etc.