How can I develop pupils’ fluent and expressive reading?

The successful teaching of reading requires practice. Children need time to read their fully decodable books aloud so they can grow automaticity and accuracy. Teachers need time to teach prosody and comprehension, and to ensure every child can read every word in the book confidently.

Research tells us that ‘fluency is the ability to read accurately, quickly, expressively, with good phrasing, AND with good comprehension’ (Razinski, 2009).

The Little Wandle pedagogy is based on the key principle that teaching children using the three reads model helps to develop fluent and expressive reading.

This blog explains the three reads model further.