Ep. 211: Building Fluency with POSSUM with Melissa Orkin and Maryanne Wolf
Description
Fluency is a crucial aspect of reading. It involves automaticity and the ability to connect different aspects of word knowledge.
In this episode, Maryanne Wolf and Melissa Orkin discuss:
- the importance of fluency in reading
- the factors that contribute to fluent reading
- the need for an integrative approach to fluency instruction
- the POSSUM approach to building word knowledge
Big Takeaway: Fluency is essential for comprehension and has social-emotional implications for struggling readers. The POSSUM approach can help students make the needed connections to be able to read fluently.
Want to Learn More?
- The More You Know: How Teaching Multiple Aspects of Word Knowledge
Builds Fluency Skills by Melissa Orkin, Kirk Vanacore, Laura Rhinehart,
Rebecca Gotlieb, and Maryanne Wolf - Building Fluency with POSSUM
- Downloadable lessons featuring the POSSUM approach:
- Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Repeated Reading Is No More Effective Than Continuous Reading for Improving Fluency and Comprehension in School-Age Struggling Readers by Elizabeth S. Norton
- RAN and the reading brain with Elizabeth Norton (youtube video)
- Word Finder wordfinder.yourdictionary.com - find words with similar patterns!
- Crafting Minds Group
- NIDO Learning
We answer your questions about teaching reading in The Literacy 50-A Q&A Handbook for Teachers: Real-World Answers to Questions About Reading That Keep You Up at Night.
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