Chapter 10 in WK

The part in chapter that I found interesting was on reading automaticity. The definition of reading automaticity is a reader's ability to recognize words without conscious decoding. The quote I found interesting that goes along with this definition was, it's important to remember that students don't develop automaticity via decoding but rather through repeated exposure to a word they can decode." 

The reason I liked this is because right now I am working with one student in reading and whenever she cannot decode a word, it does disrupt fluency. However, just sounding the word out every time it comes up does not help, it only disrupts fluency every other time as well. Therefore, overexposing students to a word they cannot automatically decode is really the only way to help them do this. Exposing a student at least 10 times to a word is said to help them finally recognize the word without disrupting the fluency. I know this works because I have done this with my student and once they see the word multiple times they also have more confidence when reading a word.