Chapter 10 "When Kids Can't Read"

In chapter 10 the author states "It's important to remember that students don't develop automaticity via decoding but rather through repeated exposure to a word they can decode." Automaticity is defined as the ability to do something without a lot of conscious thought about the task. In this chapter the author outlines some important strategies in aiding students in reading more fluently, but more importantly helping the students "spend their cognitive energy constructing meaning."

A few ideas the author outlines in this chapter to help students read more fluently is, to measure a students fluency. If we as teachers do not understand where a student is in their reading ability as far as fluency it is hard to understand why a student becomes easily upset when something takes them too long to read. One idea the author outlines to help students in their fluency is to have a word wall that is in the classroom that the students help construct. Another idea is for students to keep notecards with words they are having difficulty decoding in their texts. By instructing students to go over words again and again it will help students with their skills in word recognition and as an end result, fluency.