An overview of fluency

Overview

Literacy specialist Elaine Stanley presents this overview of fluency.

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Resources mentioned in the video

Literacy Hub phonics progression [3:39]

Phonics instructional model for reading and spelling [3:46]

Phonics professional learning: Getting started with a phonics progression [4:01]

Phonics professional learning: Explicit direct instruction for phonics – an instructional model [4:01]

Phonics professional learning: Implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach [11:37]

Who is this video for?

Foundation to Year 2 teachers; school leaders

What will you learn?

What fluency is, the components of fluency (accuracy, rate and prosody), and what needs to be put in place in your SSP classroom to support the development of fluency.

Presenter

Elaine Stanley is an experienced teacher, school leader and literacy coach. She has had extensive experience implementing systematic synthetic phonics in primary school classrooms, and has recently coached disadvantaged schools around Australia.

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Phonics professional learning: Getting started with a phonics progression

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