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title: 🎧 Jan Hasbrouck on the Role of Automaticity in Fluency 🎶
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Help your students become effortless and automatic decoders with fluency practice!

| View in browser New Podcast Episode! Hi Teacher Friend! 👋   Do you have students who struggle to effortlessly and accurately decode words? Understanding how students quickly recognize words without effort is key to boosting reading fluency. No one knows this better than fluency expert Jan Hasbrouck!    After having one of those “Know Better, Do Better” moments, Jan reached out to share her learning with us in this episode. Jan read this research and wants to share what she is now taking away from the findings.   What's important for you to know? Students who performed best on the NAEP were reading above the 75th percentile, suggesting that automaticity plays a significant role in achieving strong reading performance. In today’s episode, Jan explains why automaticity matters, how it impacts comprehension, and how you can help your students build this essential skill.  We can't wait to keep learning with you! 💙 Everything You Need to Know About Fluency- in 12 Podcast Episodes   In our latest blog post, we break down what fluency really is, why it’s essential at every grade level, and how to build it through simple, effective routines.   In addition, we share all of our fluency-focused podcast episodes! 🎧    👉 Read the blog   P.S. We Wrote A Book! Our book The Literacy 50: Real-World Answers to Questions About Reading That Keep You Up at Night is available. Order it on Scholastic! 📚 Great Minds PBC, 55 M Street SE Suite 340, Washington, DC Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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