What is fluency?
Fluency is the ability to read, speak, or write easily, smoothly
and with expression. In reading, fluency skills are the ability to see the
"big picture" rather than reading word for word. Reading fluency is often
associated with smooth and even-paced reading.
Fluent readers can immediately recognize
text or frequent clusters of letters. They have a good site word vocabulary and
can see phrases as whole thoughts and not individual words.
If a reader struggles over these common letter patterns, their reading becomes choppy. Students lose the
ability to comprehend when they are struggling over words. Their energy
and focus is often spent on just figuring out the word and not understanding the
text in front of them. To help these children, we want to identify why they are
having difficulty decoding words and include interventions in their daily
instruction.
Fluent readers
read aloud almost effortlessly and with varied expressions. They sound natural
and unrehearsed. Fluent readers are reading and comprehending
simultaneously.
Fluency develops
over time with practice. Young readers inevitably will sound choppy as
they are just beginning to understand how language works and how to break the
text into natural sounding chunks. With time and many opportunities to
practice reading, young readers develop these skills. Young readers also need to
hear stories being read aloud. Modeling fluent reading by
reading aloud is most beneficial.
To increase fluency-
Students need to participate in repetitive readings of the same materials-
teacher reads, students read with a partner, choral readings of the same
passages...
Have students tape record their oral reading and listen to their own
reading.
Daily oral and silent reading practice of at least 20
minutes!
Read to a buddy- Helps increase reading
time because it is fun to read with a buddy.
Have child read aloud to a parent, sibling, a relative, the dog, anyone who will listen!
Model reading a passage with expression and fluency to the
child and then ask them to read it (Echo Reading). Some children need to hear
fluent reading first before attempting to model it
themselves.
Choral reading- everyone reads together.
DRA Levels
Emergent
Readers = Levels 0, A,1,2,3,4
Early Readers = Levels 6,8,10,12,14 (This is where we need to be
mid-year)
Fluent Readers = Levels 16 +
(18,20,22,24,26,28+)
Reading A-Z Correlation
Chart
Reading Styles and
Strategies
Reading Tips for Parents
Beginning letter
identification (web game)
Letter - beg
picture (web game) Another letter - beg
picture (web
game)
Alphabet Letters and Sounds Recognition
Recognizing Rhyme Assessment
Assessing the Student's Concepts about Print
Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools
Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation
Fluency is the ability to read, speak, or write easily, smoothly
and with expression. In reading, fluency skills are the ability to see the
"big picture" rather than reading word for word. Reading fluency is often
associated with smooth and even-paced reading.
Fluent readers can immediately recognize
text or frequent clusters of letters. They have a good site word vocabulary and
can see phrases as whole thoughts and not individual words.
If a reader struggles over these common letter patterns, their reading becomes choppy. Students lose the
ability to comprehend when they are struggling over words. Their energy
and focus is often spent on just figuring out the word and not understanding the
text in front of them. To help these children, we want to identify why they are
having difficulty decoding words and include interventions in their daily
instruction.
Fluent readers
read aloud almost effortlessly and with varied expressions. They sound natural
and unrehearsed. Fluent readers are reading and comprehending
simultaneously.
Fluency develops
over time with practice. Young readers inevitably will sound choppy as
they are just beginning to understand how language works and how to break the
text into natural sounding chunks. With time and many opportunities to
practice reading, young readers develop these skills. Young readers also need to
hear stories being read aloud. Modeling fluent reading by
reading aloud is most beneficial.
To increase fluency-
Students need to participate in repetitive readings of the same materials-
teacher reads, students read with a partner, choral readings of the same
passages...
Have students tape record their oral reading and listen to their own
reading.
Daily oral and silent reading practice of at least 20
minutes!
Read to a buddy- Helps increase reading
time because it is fun to read with a buddy.
Have child read aloud to a parent, sibling, a relative, the dog, anyone who will listen!
Model reading a passage with expression and fluency to the
child and then ask them to read it (Echo Reading). Some children need to hear
fluent reading first before attempting to model it
themselves.
Choral reading- everyone reads together.
DRA Levels
Emergent
Readers = Levels 0, A,1,2,3,4
Early Readers = Levels 6,8,10,12,14 (This is where we need to be
mid-year)
Fluent Readers = Levels 16 +
(18,20,22,24,26,28+)
Reading A-Z Correlation
Chart
Reading Styles and
Strategies
Reading Tips for Parents
Beginning letter
identification (web game)
Letter - beg
picture (web game) Another letter - beg
picture (web
game)
Alphabet Letters and Sounds Recognition
Recognizing Rhyme Assessment
Assessing the Student's Concepts about Print
Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools
Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation