Reading Fluency Problems Affect Reading Comprehension

Learning to read is a comprehensive and complex task for children beginning to read. Children have to learn to associate the letter symbols with the sounds they make. In American language this can be a very difficult task because of all the rules of language. In order to become a successful reader, children must learn the letter sound associations and be able to apply these skills quickly enough to understand the language they are reading. Students who have a difficult time with this task have a hard time not only understanding what they have read, but also struggle to read fluently (Allord & Chard, 2011). Many educators assume that reading fluency problems affect reading comprehension because it is impossible to understand something you …show more content…
These components are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Phonemic awareness is knowing how to work with different sounds of spoken words. This is the basic understanding that there is a relationship between the words we speak and the words on print. Phonics is understanding the relationship between letter and sounds. In essences knowing the sounds that each letter of the alphabet makes as well as blends and digraphs. Fluency is the ability to read with accuracy at an age appropriate rate. Vocabulary includes the words you know along with their definitions can whether or not you are able to use those words in the appropriate context. Finally, comprehension is your ability to understand what you have read. Are you able to restate the information you have read as well as answer questions in regards to the information you have read. In order for a student to be a successful reader he or she must have sufficient knowledge and ability in each of these components.
Literacy not only includes an individual’s ability to read well, but it also includes a person’s listening skills as well as their written skills. All of these skills go hand in hand in education and is needed to be successful in all areas of academics and instruction. A person who struggles in reading will eventually struggle in other areas of study if …show more content…
However, these studies primarily focus on the intervention working to improve reading fluency over a short period of time. Few studies have been conducted to determine the long-term effects of these interventions or the efficiency of using these interventions in a severely time constrained classroom setting. Can students and parents continue these interventions at home to further push these children to maximum improvements in reading? It is difficult to study the latter question because of the inability to control the interventions in the home setting, but we can however study the efficiency of this intervention as well as send home some reading materials that the student can possibly work on their