Automaticity in reading is the ability to read fluently without having to spend a lot of effort on or attention to recognizing words. This saved effort or attention can be devoted to comprehension, for example.
The ability to read words with no noticeable effort. When people are able to read words automatically, they can then devote their attention to understanding what they are reading.
Automaticity is a general term that refers to any skilled and complex behavior that can be performed rather easily with little attention, effort, or conscious awareness. These skills become automatic after extended periods of training. With practice and good instruction, students become automatic at word recognition, that is, retrieving words from memory, and are able to focus attention on constructing meaning from the text, rather than decoding.
Quick, sure recognition of words without the need for word analysis.
The property of performance of a skill that makes it no longer depend upon effortful, conscious monitoring, such as learning to drive a car or other cognitive skills like reading or playing chess.
Automaticity of a skill is achieved when it can be performed with little or no conscious attention to its execution. Automaticity of word recognition frees conscious attention for comprehension. (See also Mastery and Automaticity.)
According to the National Institute for Literacy, automaticity of a skill is achieved when it can be performed with little or no conscious attention to its execution. Automaticity of word recognition frees conscious attention for comprehension.