oral fluency
https://www.readnaturally.com/article/hasbrouck-tindal-oral-reading-fluency-chart
The Hasbrouck-Tindal oral reading fluency charts show the oral reading fluency norms of students as determined by data collected by Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal. Teachers can use these tables to draw conclusions and make decisions about the oral reading fluency of their students.
Notes on "oral fluency WPM":
- It is a measure of elocution as much as it is a measure of language comprehension. 🔥 ( the mind is faster than the tongue)
- Most of the gains measured in this system are lost over the summer. Yet, a summer-school approach to prevent backsliding cannot be expected to make people read out loud at 300WPM by 6th grade.
- While the "grade-level percentiles" are useful, they suffer from the same problem as all those metrics do: if a cohort performs better, the percentiles will move as well; it is impossible for 80% of the class to be above-average. But, it is very possible for 80% of the class to have a satisfactory performance. There must be some metric other than "above the Nth percentile" for success.