Unlock the Power of Reading: How Fluency Drives Understanding and Engagement

Helping students read fluently is a focus of the efforts of many teachers and specialists. And that's a good thing, because we know from the National Reading Panel Report that fluency is “a critical component of skilled reading.” Fluency standards have been included as an essential foundation skill in most state reading standards. But...do we really understand what fluency is? Do we understand how to determine which students are sufficiently fluent and which need more help? And what kind of support do our students need to become fluent? Let's revisit this topic with an emphasis on the purpose of fluent reading: comprehension and motivation!

Benefit:

• Understand an updated and functional definition of reading fluency (both the fluency components of accuracy, rate, and expression/prosody and fluency mechanics).
• Explore how fluency develops in progressions from the earliest stages of reading acquisition.
• Learn how to correctly interpret the role of oral reading fluency (ORF) assessments for benchmark/screening and progress monitoring.
• Be able to accurately determine a student’s reading fluency level.
• Dig into research-based, effective instructional and intervention strategies to build reading fluency in all students.

Who should attend?

• Administrators K-6
• Teachers K-6
• Reading Specialists K-6
• Intervention Specialists K-6
• Instructional Coaches K-6
• School Psychologists

Details
Date:  November 20, 2025
Time:  8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location:  UW-Oshkosh: Culver Family Welcome Center
Cost:  $325 per participant

Questions?
If you have questions about this event, please contact Amy Ruppert, Program Assistant for CESA 6 Literacy at aruppert@cesa6.org.