The Fluency Development Lesson (FDL) aims to improve reading through what key approach?

The Fluency Development Lesson (FDL) aims to improve reading through what key approach?

• A. Vocabulary development
• B. Decoding
• C. Performance-oriented re-reading
• D. Silent reading

Answer: (C)

FDL builds reading fluency by having students repeatedly read aloud a passage with specific performance goals. The idea is to practice reading aloud multiple times until they meet targets for speed, accuracy, and expression, with guidance and feedback from the teacher. This direct, performance-focused practice strengthens how smoothly and quickly a student can read, which is the essence of fluency. Vocabulary development focuses on word meanings, not on practicing rapid, expressive reading. Decoding helps with sounding out words but doesn’t by itself train fluency in running text. Silent reading doesn’t develop oral fluency since it lacks the oral performance and feedback component that fluency practice requires.

FDL builds reading fluency by having students repeatedly read aloud a passage with specific performance goals. The idea is to practice reading aloud multiple times until they meet targets for speed, accuracy, and expression, with guidance and feedback from the teacher. This direct, performance-focused practice strengthens how smoothly and quickly a student can read, which is the essence of fluency.

Vocabulary development focuses on word meanings, not on practicing rapid, expressive reading. Decoding helps with sounding out words but doesn’t by itself train fluency in running text. Silent reading doesn’t develop oral fluency since it lacks the oral performance and feedback component that fluency practice requires.