Ep. 211: Building Fluency with POSSUM with Melissa Orkin and Maryanne Wolf

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Fluency is a crucial aspect of reading. It involves automaticity and the ability to connect different aspects of word knowledge.

In this episode, Maryanne Wolf and Melissa Orkin discuss:

• the importance of fluency in reading
• the factors that contribute to fluent reading
• the need for an integrative approach to fluency instruction
• the POSSUM approach to building word knowledge

Big Takeaway: Fluency is essential for comprehension and has social-emotional implications for struggling readers. The POSSUM approach can help students make the needed connections to be able to read fluently.

Want to Learn More?

• The More You Know: How Teaching Multiple Aspects of Word Knowledge
  Builds Fluency Skills by Melissa Orkin, Kirk Vanacore, Laura Rhinehart,
  Rebecca Gotlieb, and Maryanne Wolf
• Building Fluency with POSSUM
• Downloadable lessons featuring the POSSUM approach:
  • Grades K-2
  • Grades 3-5
• Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Repeated Reading Is No More Effective Than Continuous Reading for Improving Fluency and Comprehension in School-Age Struggling Readers by Elizabeth S. Norton
• RAN and the reading brain with Elizabeth Norton (youtube video)
• Word Finder wordfinder.yourdictionary.com - find words with similar patterns!
• Crafting Minds Group
• NIDO Learning

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1. Ep. 211: Building Fluency with POSSUM with Melissa Orkin and Maryanne Wolf (00:00:00)

2. Building Reading Fluency Through Multiple Aspects (00:00:01)

3. Exploring Fluency and Word Knowledge (00:17:30)

4. The Power of Multi-Component Interventions (00:24:34)

5. Integrating Multiple Aspects of Literacy (00:42:36)