COD 2025 - D1196

Webinar - Fluency Unlocked: Developing Skilled and Confident Readers

Primary school Heads, Coordinators and Teachers

1 sessions, start: 26-Nov

Please enrol before Friday, November 21st 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 35000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 35000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 26 November 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Primary school Heads, Coordinators and Teachers
Understand the components of reading fluency (accuracy, rate, and prosody) and their connection to comprehension.

Explore research-based strategies to develop reading fluency across proficiency levels.

Design classroom activities and formative assessments that support fluent reading.

Apply digital and performance-based tools to monitor and foster students’ reading progress.

Reflect on the relationship between fluency, motivation, and reading confidence.
What Is Reading Fluency and Why It Matters

Definition and components of fluency: accuracy, automaticity, prosody

The link between fluency and comprehension

Common myths and misconceptions

Diagnosing fluency challenges in EFL contexts

Building Fluency Through Practice

Repeated reading, echo reading, and readers’ theater

Modeling and guided oral reading

Integrating vocabulary and decoding support

Fluency-building routines for large or mixed-ability groups

Assessing Reading Fluency

Informal vs. formal assessment tools

Using rubrics and fluency scales

Digital and peer-assessment techniques

Providing effective, supportive feedback

Bringing It All Together

Designing integrated fluency lessons

Linking fluency work to reading comprehension tasks

Motivation and self-assessment strategies

Sharing classroom projects and reflections
Interactive mini-lectures: short, focused video or reading capsules introducing core concepts.

Demonstration lessons: sample fluency activities modeled for classroom adaptation.

Collaborative discussion forums: peer exchange of strategies and reflection on practice.

Micro-design tasks: teachers create short fluency-based lesson segments or assessments each week.

Reflective journaling: ongoing connection between theory and participants’ classroom realities.
To be specified.
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