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Fluency

Plan
What The ability to read text accurately, at an appropriate pace, with prosody (phrasing, pausing, stress, and intonation).
What Makes a Quality Fluency Activity? - Rasinski, T.V. & Smith, M.C. (2018). The Megabook of Fluency. Scholastic.
Why Fluency improves comprehension through the ability to recognize words automatically, accurately, and to read text with prosody. When students are able to identify words accurately and with automaticity, they can concentrate on comprehending the text rather than decoding words. Reading fluency makes possible silent reading comprehension.
How Grades K-2: Students need daily opportunities to hear text read aloud in a fluent, expressive manner.
Grade 1: Students should participate in daily guided repeated oral readings of familiar texts.
Grade 2: Students typically show the greatest amount of growth in reading fluency at this level. They need daily opportunities for repeated readings with corrective feedback.
Grade 3-5: Fluency continues to contribute to overall reading comprehension along with vocabulary and background knowledge. Students still need daily practice reading aloud with corrective feedback as texts become more complex.
Grade 6: Most student will not substantially increase oral reading fluency rate and accuracy beyond grade 6; however, they still need ample amounts of reading practice in a wide range of texts to ensure they don't fall behind.
(Torgeson et al., 2007)
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Instruct
Fluency Materials JSD Fluency Development Lesson (FDL) Plan
Blast Fluency Routine
HD Word Fluency Routine

Active Reading Strategies
Repeated Oral Reading Methods
Reading Rate Expectation by Grade Level

Letter Name/Sound Daily Routine (Intervention)
Kindergarten UFLI Words & Sentences
UFLI Fluency Lines (work in progress)
High Frequency and Irregularly Spelled Words Model For Teaching High Frequency Words
Heart Word Magic
Teacher Modeling 1st Grade RGR Oral Reading Fluency
2nd Grade RGR Oral Reading Fluency
Shared Reading
Choral Reading
Paired Reading
SPORT - Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques
Paired Reading Routine

Jobs Poster
Engagement Poster
Fluency Vocab Poster
Example Schedule
Student Grouping Form
Repeated Reading Timed Repeated Reading
Grades 2-3 Resources
Grades 4-5 Resources
Grades 6-8 Resources
Wit & Wisdom Fluency Practice for Families
Reader's Theater Description
Free Readers Theater Scripts

Reader's Theater for Multilingual Learners

 

Assess
Acadience Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring Login
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 1 Student Materials
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 2 Student Materials
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 3 Student Materials
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 4 Student Materials
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 5 Student Materials
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Level 6 Student Materials
Fluency Elements Fluency Rubric
Adapt
Interventions K & 1st Grade Research Based Fluency Activities
2nd & 3rd Grade Research Based Fluency Activities
4th & 5th Grade Research Based Fluency Activities

Any resource underneath "instruct" above can be used for intervention.
Extensions Teachers can use above grade-level text to challenge students' reading fluency.