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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.
Articles
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
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.
Fluency Resources
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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Articles Powerful Ways to PlayGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 from Wanda Glasshoff, a third-grade teacher at Gretna Elementary School in Gretna, Nebraska:Glasshoff promotes fluency through performance acti |
Articles Qualitative RubricGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 4. Reads primarily in larger, meaningful phrase groups. Although some regressions, repetitions, and deviations from the text may be present, these... |
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Articles Fluency Development Lesson (FDL)Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 The FDL employs short reading passages (poems, story segments, or other texts) that students read and reread over a short period of time. The... |
The Many Ways I Use PoetryGrades: 3–5 Describes the ways in which one teacher uses poetry to increase he students'fluency, and expose them to a variety of styles. |
Sharing a Favorite PoemGrades: 9–12 Uses a favorite poem to increase students'reading of poetry and to encourage both interpretation and fluency. |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources What Aaron Taught Me About FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 How a kid who had never been to school transformed my teaching. |
 Fluency is FundamentalGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Guide your students across thebridge between two major components of reading decoding and comprehension. |
 Articles The Power of Reader's TheaterGrades: 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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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Oral Fluency AssessmentGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Tips for administering an Oral Fluency Assessment, an accurate and easy way to predict comprehension ability, determine reading fluency, and... |
Articles Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5Grades: 3–5 Use the Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator when you administer tests with your students. Oral Fluency Assessment is an accurate and easy way to... |
 Using Poetry to Improve FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Through group reading and repeated exposure to poems, early readers gain the confidence needed to achieve fluency. |
Lesson Plans, Articles & Collections, Book Resources Instruction for Fluent ReadingGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Put theory to practice with these instructional sample resources on fluency. |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources New Research on an Old Problem: A Brief History of FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 A brief look at a history of research on reading fluency reveals how complicated and how important it is for reading's development in the child.... |
Articles Resources for Teaching FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Fluency resources to help you implement theory into good teaching practice. |
Common Questions About FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Answers to the four most common questions about reading fluency: 1) what is it?; 2) why do so many struggling readers have great difficulty in... |
 Articles Literacy & Reading VideosGrades: 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... |
 Teaching Sentence Fluency Using Whales PassingGrades: 1–2 This lesson on sentence fluency shows children to how dialogue, sentence fragments, and sentences creates sentence fluency. |
 Articles Teaching Struggling Readers With PoetryGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Engage struggling readers with these poetry-based lessons designed to supplement core reading or small-group instruction. |
