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Accuracy

Words Correct Per Minute

The process for calculating words correct per minute (WCPM) and reading accuracy begins with the selection of three passages from a grade level basal text. Students are required to read each passage for exactly one minute and the total number of words read for each passage is averaged to produce a score. The total number of errors made while reading each passage is then averaged to produce a second score. The difference between the average number of words read and the average number of errors is then computed to yield the WCPM. This number can then be used to determine if the student is at, below, or above grade level in reading fluency. Furthermore, once a baseline is established at the beginning of the year, additional measurements can be taken to determine individual student progress throughout the year.

Decoding/Fluency

Students cannot understand texts if they cannot read the words.

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Before they can read the words, they have to be aware of the letters and the sounds represented by letters so that sounding out and blending of sounds can occur to pronounce words. Once pronounced, the good reader notices whether the word as recognized makes sense in the sentence and the text context being read and, if it does not, takes another look at the word to check if it might have been misread. Student word-recognition skills are critical to the development of comprehension. However, the ability to sound out a word does not assure that the word will be understood by the reader. Real mental effort is necessary when students begin learning to sound out words. The more effort required the less consciousness left over for other cognitive operations, including comprehension of the words being sounded out. Fluent word recognition consumes little cognitive capacity, freeing up the child's….....

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