Aug 18 cont'd

Another thing that occurs to me is that we're starting to count fluency as the only measure of reading. I myself am guilty of this. Clearly, these students have been timed before and are used to it, but I realize as they're reading that I'm taking no measurement of whether they're understanding what they're reading. Of course fluency and comprehension go hand in hand, but ... some of the mistakes they're making show that they might not comprehend, when they don't go back and self-correct.