Decoding builds the toolkit. Fluency is what happens after — when the brain stops working the word and starts living inside the sentence.
A fluent reader does not just read each word accurately. They read in phrases. They hear the punctuation in their own voice. They sense when a sentence is rising toward a question and when it is settling into a quiet conclusion. Comprehension stops being a task they do after reading and starts happening while they read.
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