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Fluency Resources: Everything You Need

These resources cover the basics of fluency, how to measure student success, and ways to improve each student's fluency skills.

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5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Modeling, repetition, reader's theater, and other methods for teaching students to read aloud expressively and with understanding

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Sentence Fluency: Crafting Well-Built Sentences

Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

The key qualities of Sentence Fluency are: Crafting Well-Built Sentences, Varying Sentence Patterns, Breaking the "Rules" to Create Fluency, and Capturing a Smooth and Rhythmic Flow. In this worksheet, Ruth gives a short example and asks some key questions.

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Fluency Resources

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

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Fluency is Fundamental

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Guide your students across thebridge between two major components of reading decoding and comprehension.

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Teaching Sentence Fluency Using Whales Passing

Grades: 1–2

This lesson on sentence fluency shows children to how dialogue, sentence fragments, and sentences creates sentence fluency.

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Teach Reading Fluency Every Day!

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

 

Your students have taken the DIBELS reading fluency test, so now what? Here are ideas to help their reading fluency and confidence grow...

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The Power of Reader's Theater

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Encourages the reading, practicing, and performance of plays to enhance fluency, writing, listening, and social skills.

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Implementing Assisted Reading

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Ways you can use oral assisted reading to provide an assist or scaffolding for students in grade 1 and beyond to move them toward independence and...

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Fluency Strategies in Action

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Learn how implementing instructional activities improves students' reading fluency. Then, see how combining these strategies leads to a greater...

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Performance Reading: The Student-Led Read Aloud

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Four ways to implement student-led read aloud, including turning repeated reading into engaging and effective instruction. Excerpted from from...

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Setting the Stage for Readers Theater

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Expert Joe Worthy shares guidelines for organizing a Readers Theater as well as how to introduce it to students.

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Having Fun With Fluency! Part I - A Bridge To Comprehension

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2



If you...

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Having Fun With Fluency! Part 2 — Strategies Readers Will Enjoy

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Last week, we had...

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The Many Ways I Use Poetry

Grades: 3–5

Describes the ways in which one teacher uses poetry to increase he students'fluency, and expose them to a variety of styles.

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Oral and Partner Cloze: Effective Fluency Strategies

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

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Literacy & Reading Videos

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Exemplary teachers and professional development authors confront issues pertaining to a variety of readers. Learn about new practices in reading...

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Using Poetry to Improve Fluency

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Through group reading and repeated exposure to poems, early readers gain the confidence needed to achieve fluency.

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Nonfiction Genre Study

Grades: 3–5

These lessons can help students understand and develop fluency in reading and writing nonfiction.

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Assessing Reading and Reading Fluency

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Learn how to perform assessments and use the results efficiently to guide your instruction.

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Tips on Choosing Audiobooks

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Five tips to get the most out of using audiobooks in the classroom

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Teaching Struggling Readers With Poetry

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Engage struggling readers with these poetry-based lessons designed to supplement core reading or small-group instruction.

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Showcasing Fluency: The Fluency Masterpiece Gallery

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

See how one school program, The Fluency Masterpiece Gallery, improved students' reading fluency and led to greater participation from parents.

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Getting Parents Involved

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Encourage parents to help their children develop fluency at home!

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