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Good basics. Includes references to research reports: The National Assessment of Educational Progress found that 44% of the nation's fourth graders were low in fluency (National Reading Panel, 2000). Recently, Rasinski, Padak, et. al. (2005) found that a group of ninth graders' level of oral reading fluency was below the 25th percentile for eighth graders. They also found that 28% of the variation in student achievement on the state high school test could be accounted for by variation in a student's reading fluency. That is why fluency is an important component of the Literacy Roadmap. Wha