After learning phonics skills, it's essential for students to practice for mastery. This leads to building automatic word reading, where students begin to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. By dedicating time to apply phonics skills, students build automaticity and can improve their fluency.
In this next video, you’ll hear the presenter discuss how to build automaticity through repeated practice and then we’ll see educators model these strategies.
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