What is Fluency?
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Fluency Pitfalls to Avoid
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Fluent reading is the bridge to comprehension
Means reading with appropriate..
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Hyper-focus on speed
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Fluency for Diverse Learners
Primary Elementary Students (grades K-2)
Activate prior knowledge Record students reading Use leveled texts Repeated reading of texts Allow students to listen to recordings of stories Allow students to record themselves reading |
Upper Elementary Students (grades 3-5)
Activate prior knowledge Define vocabulary Use leveled texts Allow students to listen to their recording & assess themselves using a fluency rubric Readers Theater Read aloud to younger students |
Fluency Interventions
The interventions are designed to assist students with
increasing their automaticity with word reading and fluency with
connected text
Sight Word Development
- Word a child can read without sounding them out
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Automaticity
- Occurs through independent reading
- Supported by shared reading
- Word sorts can be useful
Ways to Support Fluency
- Lots of reading at independent level
- Demonstrate through read aloud
- Think aloud during read aloud
- Repeated reading with a purpose for the child (Ex. Well liked, familiar, independent level texts)
Authentic Repeated Readings
- Readers theater
- Shared reading
- NIM (neurological impress method – choral reading)
- Reading to a younger child
- Preparing to share a poem, song, favorite piece
- Creating a book on tape for the classroom
- Reading to a family member
How to assess without the 1-mintue read?
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Fluency Passages
The following links can be printed for practice at home. Print 2 copies of each passage. Time your child for one minute. Count the number of words read. Determine how many words your child is able to read in one minute by subtracting any words that are read incorrectly or omitted. This will give you the fluency rate (words per minute) of your child