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Deborah Norville, a host of the third program in the Reading Rockets series, is the mother of three and the anchor of Inside Edition.





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Quickly and Easily
Fluency means being able to decode individual words accurately and quickly... and understand the words as you read them. This is a crucial skill. A child who reads haltingly will work so hard at the mechanics of the task that there's little mental energy left to understand the meaning.
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"The more rapid you
are at reading, the more time you can actually allocate to understanding what you read." – Maryanne Wolf,
Tufts University

Want to know more? These articles show how teachers and schools can help new readers.

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Here are some of our favorite websites for beginning readers.

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