He waved the title under their eyes, but this meant little except to Roffery, the only fluent reader among them.

The present research aims to investigate parsing processes in fluent readers.

There is a welcome backlash against the idea that children have to give up pictures when they become fluent readers.

Critics of the phonics-based perspective point out that fluent readers are those who read both effectively and efficiently.

Reading in this way, as all fluent readers do, allows for efficient reading.

"Even with these gains, we have one out of two students that are not fluent readers at the fourth-grade level."

"If a child is not a fluent reader, he or she will avoid reading; it's too effortful."

Unfortunately the concepts are too difficult for young children, while a chaotic design is less than helpful for more fluent readers.

Many spend several years in 9th and 10th grade before dropping out, never becoming fluent readers.

Recent research in reading indicates that young children who have frequent daily exposure to "literacy events" at home are well equipped to become fluent readers.