Reading is not a race: The virtues of the ‘slow reading’ movement - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Reading is not a race: The virtues of the ‘slow reading’ movement - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Go to just about any elementary school in this country and you will see teachers with stopwatches assessing “nonsense word fluency.” When I first heard the term, I though someone was pulling my leg. Fluency in reading, I had always thought, was about meaning, about understanding. It had nothing to do with nonsense.