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

  • Dec 6 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
  • Podcast

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

  • Summary

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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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