While it may be desirable for students to work with isolated words on occasion students become readers by reading connected text Duffy 2009.

What is connected text in reading. My writers enthusiasm is contagious. The findings indicate clinicians should use caution when inferring comprehension abilities from single word reading performance as reading comprehension abilities are likely best assessed using text. The book features words with the short u sound.

1 Fluency with Connected Text Activities Fluency is the ability to read a text smoothly and accurately. What the teacher does. Read along with Teresa as she reads the decodable text Up.

Reads with high level of accuracy. Reading words in isolation is important practice for building proficiency but students also need ample practice in reading connected text. This is such an amazing paper.

Environmental connected text and leisure. As we have discussed in the class if we speak of Text as Connected Discourse we will be dragging in two interrelated concepts the text and the discourse. Controlled text helps students succeed at reading by giving them small chunks of text that they can read.

Decoding Sounding out Things to look for in this clip. May be duplicated for classroom and at-home use. If you do not have access to digital books through your school try the sources.

Daily practice with reading connected text helps students increase their accuracy. - Lauren 4th Year Education. In doing so there is no noticeable cognitive effort that is associated with decoding the words on the page.