Improving Fluency of My First Grade Students

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2017-07-25

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Masters of Education

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Abstract

The purpose of reading is to gain meaning from various texts. In order to gain meaning, students must exhibit strong fluency skills. Researchers suggest multiple instructional strategies that teachers of all grade levels can implement into reading instruction to strengthen fluency skills. The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of various intervention strategies in order to improve first graders’fluency. The results show that the intervention strategies used in this design had a positive impact on first graders’ fluency.