Assessing Reading Fluency by Dr. Timothy V. Rasinski discusses research on assessments for monitoring students’ fluency development in terms of the following components of fluency:

• Accuracy, or accurate decoding of words in text;
• Automaticity, or decoding words with minimal use of attentional resources; and
• Prosody, or the appropriate use of phrasing and expression to convey meaning.
  Examples are provided.

Dr. Rasinski is a professor of education in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. He has published over 100 articles and 10 books on various aspects of reading education, including The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension. Dr. Rasinski is an editor for the Journal of Literacy Research.

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