WILSON Fluency™ / Basic Kit

WILSON Fluency / Basic is designed to provide explicit fluency instruction and reading practice to develop the application of skills with connected text.

Reading for understanding is the goal of reading. Research informs us that fluency is one of several critical factors that aid reading comprehension. Wilson Fluency instruction provides practice with connected text that students need to develop rate-appropriate independent reading with ease and expression.

WILSON Fluency / Basic provide 200- 250 word passages with 90% controlled text. The basic kit includes four readers focusing on short vowels as follows:

• Fluency Reader One: Closed Syllables (CVC Words / No Blends)
• Fluency Reader Two: Closed Syllables (Blends / Welded Sounds)
• Fluency Reader Three: Closed Syllables (Multisyllabic Words)
• Fluency Reader Basic Non-Controlled Decodable Text Stories, which correspond to Enriched Text Passages

Each Fluency Reader contains five controlled stories. The corresponding fluency work for each story includes:

• Word List 1 (regular, phonetically controlled words) and Word List 2 (high-frequency sight words) help to increase single word accuracy and automaticity.
• Phrases 1 consists of controlled short phrases, which contain only phonetic patterns or high-frequency sight words which have been taught. These help develop accuracy and prosody with connected text.
• Phrases 2 are longer phrases from the story. These provide meaningful chunks that contain both taught and untaught elements.
• To further develop phrasing and expression, students practice a phrased version of the story before reading the un-phrased passage.

WILSON Fluency / Basic corresponds to the Wilson Reading System® Steps 1-3 and can be used in a WRS class. Additionally, it is appropriate with any curriculum that introduces short vowels in words with progressively more challenging patterns.

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