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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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 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. |
 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. |
 Blog Posts 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... |
 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. |
 Implementing Assisted ReadingGrades: 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... |
 Fluency Strategies in ActionGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Learn how implementing instructional activities improves students' reading fluency. Then, see how combining these strategies leads to a greater... |
 Performance Reading: The Student-Led Read AloudGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Four ways to implement student-led read aloud, including turning repeated reading into engaging and effective instruction. Excerpted from from... |
 Setting the Stage for Readers TheaterGrades: 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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 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. |
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 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... |
 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. |
 Collections Nonfiction Genre StudyGrades: 3–5 These lessons can help students understand and develop fluency in reading and writing nonfiction. |
 Assessing Reading and Reading FluencyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Learn how to perform assessments and use the results efficiently to guide your instruction. |
 Tips on Choosing AudiobooksGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Five tips to get the most out of using audiobooks in the classroom |
 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. |
 Showcasing Fluency: The Fluency Masterpiece GalleryGrades: 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. |
 Getting Parents InvolvedGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Encourage parents to help their children develop fluency at home! |
