A Lesson on Reading Fluency Learned From The Tortoise and the Hare.

This article describes speed and reading fluency and their role in improved reading. The author uses the analogy of the fable about the tortoise and the hare to illustrate the effect of speed without comprehension in reading fluency. In many cases, students who read fast do not comprehend what they...

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Published in:	Reading Teacher Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 219 - 224
Main Author:	Hicks, Cynthia P.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2009
Subjects:	Reading Oral reading Reading speed Reading ability testing Reading comprehension Reading teachers
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