Publisher's Synopsis
This work talks about development of fluency, factors affecting fluency, definition, history, measurement and assessment, struggling readers, and English-language learners. Reading fluency has become a hot topic. When Cassidy and Cassidy (2003/2004) asked experts ""What's Hot and What's Not"" in ""Reading Today"", the experts agreed that fluency was a hot topic and deserved to be. Similarly, the highly influential ""Report of the National Reading Panel"" (2000) devoted an entire chapter to fluency. Along with fluency's newfound importance, however, it is going through a period of growing pains. There are two controversial aspects of fluency. The first relates to its definition and the second to its measurement. Definitions are not trivial ivory tower concerns that are of no importance because how we define a construct such as fluency determines and influences to a large degree how we will measure it.
