Oral Reading Fluency
K-8
Explicit Fluency Instruction
with Student Accountability
Prosody Ideas
- punctuation abc's
- Reader's Theater:
- http://www.thebestclass.org/rtscripts.html
- http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=9&MMN_position=34:34
- Fluency bookmark
- Fluency folders
- graphing fluency rate
- reflections on improvement
- Tape recorded reading
Accuracy and Automaticity Ideas
Components of fluency instruction
- passages- https://www.readworks.org/
- repeated readings
- paired (teacher or student
- echo reading/choral reading
- chunking- https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1BJELee2MdyUnFDYTRNWGNUM3VzdFg0QjNRVk42UQ/edit?pli=1
- running records-teacher
- SRC benchmarks
- accuracy- reading words correctly
- automaticity- recognizing words automatically without decoding
- prosody- using intonation, phrasing, and expression while reading
- http://www.nearyteam.com/fluency.php
Considerations in teaching fluency
Guiding Principles of Fluency
Level of text:
- Independent- students can read easily, making fewer than five mistakes for every 100 words (95% accuracy)
- Instructional- students typically make fewer than ten mistakes for every 100 words (90%)
- Frustration- students make more than 10 mistakes for every 100 words (89% or less)
- Don't assume that fluency instruction can be skipped.
- Model fluent reading.
- Maximize the time spent reading.
- Practice, practice, practice!
What instructional practices support fluency?
- appropriate leveled texts
- opportunities to practice reading
- non-interruptive reading strategy
What is fluency?
flu·ent adj. 1.a. Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly. b. Flowing effortlessly; polished. 2. Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful. 3. Flowing or capable of flowing; fluid. --flu“en·cy n. --flu“ent·ly adv. (American Heritage Dictionary)