Fluency Flashcards
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A student reads 85 words per minute with 94% accuracy. According to FastBridge aReading norms, this student is MOST LIKELY performing at which level?
Answer: Below benchmark for most grade levels
85 WPM with 94% accuracy falls below benchmark for most elementary grade levels on FastBridge norms.
Which aspect of fluency is assessed when an examiner listens to a student read and marks whether phrasing sounds natural and sentences are grouped appropriately?
Answer: Prosody
Prosody refers to the natural expression, phrasing, and intonation a reader uses, which reflects comprehension.
During a FastBridge ORF probe, a student self-corrects an error before moving on. How is this self-correction typically scored?
Answer: Counted as correct
Self-corrections are scored as correct because the student demonstrated monitoring and fixing their own reading.
A teacher wants to build a student's reading rate without sacrificing accuracy. Which instructional approach is BEST supported by research?
Answer: Using repeated reading with corrective feedback
Repeated reading with corrective feedback is one of the most research-supported methods for improving both rate and accuracy.
On the FastBridge aReading assessment, what does WCPM stand for?
Answer: Words Correctly Per Minute
WCPM (Words Correctly Per Minute) is the primary fluency metric, calculated by subtracting errors from total words read in one minute.
Which of the following errors would NOT be counted against a student's WCPM score during an oral reading fluency assessment?
Answer: Proper noun mispronunciation
Proper nouns that are mispronounced are typically not counted as errors because students may be unfamiliar with the name.
A second-grade student scores at the 50th percentile on FastBridge ORF in the fall. What does this percentile rank indicate?
Answer: The student scored higher than 50% of students in the norm group
A percentile rank of 50 means the student performed as well as or better than 50% of students in the normative sample.