Repetition is a key element in this fluency into comprehension programme. Children who are still struggling to read fluently at KS2 and beyond are likely to be aware of their difficulties. This awareness starts to impact negatively on their attitude to reading, their confidence and their motivation. Each repetition builds their level of accuracy and their pace of reading, allowing them to sound more like a good reader. Each repetition builds confidence by letting them hear themselves becoming more successful. And each repetition inches them towards more skilled reading practice.

In each fluency focused lesson in the programme the child should hear the text read aloud at least four or five times. This build-up of opportunities occurs in the adult modelling section of the lesson, the re-read section where the group use choral and echo techniques to read with adult, and in the practise section where they read independently or in pairs.

There are opportunities for further repetitions at the start of the next fluency focused lesson, where a familiar text is re-read and in the comprehension focused lesson where again a text is re-read before any vocabulary or misunderstandings are clarified or questioned.