- Nov 07, 2020
Fluency Quotes
On language, reading and belonging.
These fluency quotes move from classroom definitions, fluency as the ability to read text accurately and quickly, toward bigger claims about fluency as a bridge to comprehension and a fuller life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.
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Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
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Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.
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My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
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- Nov 07, 2020