COD 2025 - P289

ESSARP goes to Colegio El Buen Ayre: "Fluency Unlocked: Developing Skilled and Confident Readers"

Primary School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers

2 sessions, start: 01-Dec

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: AR428 - Colegio El Buen Ayre
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 70000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 70000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 01 December 2025 01:00 pm 04:00 pm
2 15 December 2025 01:00 pm 04:00 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
During the sessions participants will:
explore key concepts
analyze and discuss cases and examples
explore strategies and practical ideas
interact with material brought by the facilitator
To be specified.
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