Fluency

One may wonder the benefit of reading passages over and over. The National Reading Panel emphasized the importance of fluency and how guided repeated oral reading can improve children's reading through fifth grade and may even prove helpful for some students in middle school and high school. Shaywitz (2005) shared, "reading a passage over and over while receiving feedback is a means of obtaining input to master a specific word (p. 232). The repeated reading builds a more accurate neural representation of that word within the brain (2005, Shaywitz, p. 232)