Word reading fluency assesses the student's fluency in reading all three word types: regular, irregular, and pseudowords, combining all word reading skills.

Word reading fluency plays a vital role in the student's ability to read. Accurate and timely decoding of words helps to improve the fluency of reading which allows for reading to become a natural, enjoyable and meaningful experience. Fluent reading means the student is then able to focus on comprehension and extracting meaning from the text and is the very reason we read.

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Opportunities for developing word reading fluency:

To assess Word Reading Fluency (WRF), the student's reading rate along with their ability to accurately read real and pseudowords is combined to provide the number of words a student can read fluently in one minute. This is automatically measured during a word reading assessment on Dystech.