Text fluency - Professor Timothy Shanahan
Timothy Shanahan
1.5 Hours
Available all year
Online unmoderated course
Text fluency matters because of its relationship to reading comprehension, explicit fluency instruction can support students to decode better, read more fluently and improve reading comprehension. This course, created by Professor Timothy Shanahan, unpacks the relationship between automaticity, prosody and text fluency, and provides strategies for teaching and assessing text fluency.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand how a reader becomes fluent
- Use a range of teaching strategies to teach text fluency
- Select appropriate texts for teaching text fluency
- Measure and assess fluency
Who should participate?
- Teachers - Years F - 6
- Literacy Coordinators
- Heads of Curriculum and Instruction
- Heads of Teaching and Learning
What else do I need to know?
This course is self-paced and unmoderated. All participants have access to materials for 365 days from the date they register.
How does it work?
- Individuals: upon registration individuals will be sent a link to access the PL on our online learning platform.
- Group Booking: Schools interested in making a group booking should email us the number of teachers they wish to enrol in order to receive a quote.
- PL Subscription: Access this course via the PL Subscription homepage. All PL subscription members receive free access to all online unmoderated courses.
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Completing this course comprises 1.5 hours (NSW - Elective PL) of online professional learning addressing standards 1.2.2, 2.1.2 and 2.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.