S6 E12 - When Repeated Reading Doesn't Work

The Structured Literacy Podcast

Repeated reading doesn't work for all students because fluency issues have different root causes. Understanding four reading profiles helps target the right intervention:

1. Speedy & accurate
2. Slow & accurate
3. Fast & inaccurate
4. Slow & inaccurate

Critical principle: First comes accuracy, then comes speed.

Why repeated reading fails: If students lack foundational phonics knowledge (can't automatically decode 60-70 graphemes), no amount of text-level practice will improve fluency.

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פרקים

1. Introduction to Upper Primary Literacy (00:00:00)

2. Understanding Fluency Components (00:04:38)

3. Four Student Reading Profiles (00:06:23)

4. Addressing Fast but Inaccurate Readers (00:08:40)

5. Slow and Inaccurate: Phonics First (00:11:11)

6. Assessment as Your Guiding Light (00:13:49)

7. Final Thoughts and Conclusion (00:16:17)