Ch 13: AEPA Reading K-8: Improving Fluency

AEPA Reading K-8: Improving Fluency - Chapter Summary

Use these chapter resources to brush up on methods for improving student reading fluency. These lessons will help you prepare for fluency questions on the AEPA Reading K-8 exam. By the end of the chapter, you'll have covered the following topics:

• Methods for improving reading fluency
• Instructing students in radio reading
• Peer groups
• Literacy learning with peer-assisted strategies
• Jigsaw activities

These lessons will give you concrete teaching strategies for fluency in short, easily understandable lessons. Access the lessons as many times as you need. Keep an eye on your progress through the chapter with the personal dashboard feature, which tracks how far you've come and what you still need to cover.

AEPA Reading K-8: Improving Fluency Objectives

Arizona educators who wish to teach elementary or middle grade English will need to pass the AEPA Reading K-8 exam. The exam lasts three hours and 30 minutes and consists of 100 constructed-response questions and one written assignment.

This chapter is designed to prepare you for questions on instruction and intervention in fluency in the Essential Elements of K-8 Literacy Instruction and Intervention subarea of the exam. This subsection as a whole accounts for about 40% of the total test. You'll be tested on key indicators of reading fluency, common factors that disrupt fluency, strategies for providing fluency instruction and intervention strategies that address student needs in fluency improvement.