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According to Wolf and Katzir-Cohen (2001), the amount of interest paid to reading fluency has varied over the history of reading-instruction theory, with high points during periods when reading aloud has been seen as crucial. Allington (1983) in particular has contributed strongly to the inclusion of fluency as an explicit objective in various national curricula.
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Tønnessen, F.E., Uppstad, P.H. (2015). Reading Fluency. In: Can We Read Letters?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-956-2_6
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