Reading fluency has received considerable attention in foreign studies but is still little studied in Brazil. The present study aimed to analyze the recent literature on fluency, discussing its components, development and relationships with reading comprehension. Studies analyzed shows clearly that fluency is an essential skill, present in all good readers and deserves the attention of researchers due to the relations being established between it and the text comprehension. Some thoughts on the implications of the theoretical model for classroom practice were made.
Reading; Fluency; Comprehension; Accuracy; Prosody