In Week 5 you trained your storyteller voice. Today we add the second half of fluency: understanding while you read.

Click or Clunk: As you read, your brain makes a quiet sound. When everything makes sense: CLICK, keep going. When something stops making sense: CLUNK! A good reader stops at a clunk and uses a fix-it move: reread the sentence, slow down, or read around the confusing word (Week 11's context clues!).

Model it: read a paragraph aloud, then fake a clunk on purpose: "Wait. That did not make sense to me. Watch what I do: I go back and reread the sentence, slower." Then model a quick retell: "After I read, I say back what happened in one or two sentences. If I cannot retell it, that is a clunk too."

The self-monitoring move is the whole lesson: strong readers NOTICE when they stop understanding. Praise every honest clunk the student admits to today.