Ability Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life.…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Cognitive fluency refers to our brains’ tendency to accept messages that are easy to understand and effortlessly fit into existing schemata (referring back to…

— David DiSalvo

Digital fluency is about basic skills.

— Julie Sweet

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product…

— Stanley Fish

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

— George H. W. Bush

“Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales.” p. 26”

— Stanley Fish

“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an expectation for…

— Terry Marselle

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

“The Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System measures accuracy, comprehension, and fluency. (There are also assessments in the system that measure phonemic awareness, phonics,…

— Clare Landrigan

“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.”

— 2000 National Reading Panel

“Good readers may struggle with a difficult text, but struggle is not the goal of reading. The goal is fluency. Meaning flows to the…

— Roy Peter Clark

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very…

— Maryanne Wolf