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Back to EpisodesSummer Series - When Repeated Reading Doesn't Work
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What is the Summer Series?
A collection of listener favourites from the Structured Literacy Podcast to get you prepared for 2026.
Today's Episode
Repeated reading doesn't work for all students because fluency issues have different root causes. Understanding four reading profiles helps target the right intervention:
- Speedy & accurate
- Slow & accurate
- Fast & inaccurate
- Slow & inaccurate
Critical principle: First comes accuracy, then comes speed.
Why repeated reading fails: If students lack foundational phonics knowledge (can't automatically decode 60-70 graphemes), no amount of text-level practice will improve fluency.
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