Fluency Ideas

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Posted August 30th, 2007 by Anonymous
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Fluency: What is It?

 

Fluency Resources:

  • Kansas Parent Information Resource - Two packets of activities that can be utilized to build students fluency skills. These packets were designed for teachers and parents.
  • Florida Center for Reading Research - These center ideas were created by the Florida Center for Reading Research (www.fcrr.org) to help teachers prepare meaningful and purposeful literacy activities while they work with small groups of children.
  • Basic Readers' Theater Rubric - This rubric is written in kid friendly language and can be used with primary and intermediate students.
  • Fluency Phrases - Practice phrasing by using numbers to practice reading punctuation.

Fluency Websites:

Reader's Theatre Scripts

Reading A to Z - leveled fluency passages and reader's theatre scripts to download. (Membership Fee)

Teaching Heart - Free Reader's Theatre scripts and resources.

Aaron Shepard- Free Reader's Theatre scripts and resources.

Poetry

Poetry4Kids - Poetry resources

Poetry Archives - Poetry archives

Poetry Teachers - Poetry resources

Assessment

Scholastic Fluency - Online fluency calculator.


Fluency Interventions:

Experts say that children should have 7 readings or exposures to a text for optimal comphrehension. Here are some of the ways we brainstormed providing 7 exposures:

  • child read aloud
  • teacher read aloud
  • Buddy read
  • Whisper read
  • Read in a phonics phone
  • Read silently
  • Make the text into a cloze passage (leave out the dolch/sight words) and have the children use context clues to add them back in.
  • Scramble it up and put in order
  • Read to a lower grade.
  • Record your own reading into powerpoint, MP3, moviemaker (narration line), etc.
  • Listen to your recording! Listen to a friend's recording!
  • Radio read (over intercom into your classroom only)
  • Re-enact the reading with friends
  • volunteer (fireman, grandmas) classroom readers
  • Reader's Theatre
  • Videotape

Great Leaps-Similar to Read Naturally. Students read letters, word parts, words, phrases, sentences, then paragraphs.
Taping Students - what is the best way to do this now?