Fluency
Fluency practice is essential to the development of your child's reading. Students can make 2 years progress in fluency when they follow the home fluency program teamed with nightly reading in addition to reading instruction in class.
Here are some files that will help get you started with fluency.
Here are some files that will help get you started with fluency.
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What is Fluency? explains how fluency is more than just reading quickly.
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The Parent Directions are my own compilation of several sources that I have found to work well paired with comprehension questions.
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The Running Record Marks are used to code the passage for mistakes so feedback can be given to the student after the passage is read.
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This Fluency Graph includes the ACPS benchmarks.
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With the Counting Up Fluency Routine, students read an entire passage with the goal of decreasing time each time they read.
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Here are the books I use for passages. Clicking on the last book will bring you to partial on-line version of the book.
Various publications have slight changes, so the numbers to the comprehension questions may vary from the version you have.
I choose passages that correspond to our curriculum and skip passages that I think are too removed from the students' understanding, so there are not question sets for every passage.
I choose passages that correspond to our curriculum and skip passages that I think are too removed from the students' understanding, so there are not question sets for every passage.