If the strategies you're trying to improve reading fluency don't seem to be working, keep your eye out for other signs of reading problems.
Not exact matches
These readers clearly require special instruction, yet they
do not receive it because
reading fluency is rarely assessed.
Despite all the emphasis on
reading programs and encouraging students to
read, many children, especially minority students, still
do not
read with a high level of comprehension and
fluency, independently, or for fun, according to Dr. Sally M. Reis, a professor and the department head of the educational psychology department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.
Introducing new words and using full sentences («yes, we
do need to put on our raincoats» rather than «yes, sure») also expands vocabulary, which not only helps students when they are first learning to
read at around the ages of five and six, but also later in elementary school when they take the next steps and work on comprehension and
fluency — the ability to
read text accurately and quickly.
Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average
did not perform better than the control group in
reading fluency or comprehension.
Why
do Read Naturally Live, Encore, Masters Edition (ME), Software Edition (SE), and GATE focus on
fluency?
The teachers decided this student needed to
do more
reading to develop
fluency.
Referring back to our example of Jerome's homework completion rate, we could propose the following hypothesis: Jerome submits 40 % of the total homework in his History course because he
does not have a
reading fluency level that matches the
reading fluency level of the textbook from which assignments are created.
As students become more familiar with vocabulary and continue to build their vocabulary skills, not only
does their
reading fluency increase but so
does their
reading comprehension.
They then share ideas and resources related to text complexity, academic vocabulary, syntax,
fluency,
reading aloud, and the amount and type of
reading students
do.
SPECIAL NOTE: Please
do not use these flash cards as a «drill and kill»
reading activity in a sole attempt to improve DIBELS Nonsense Word
Fluency scores.
Even so, it is important to note that collaborative leadership
did make a significant contribution to growth in students»
reading fluency and writing.
Most students who
did not master
reading fluency in first grade will
do so in second.
NOTE: This
reading fluency activity must be explicitly modeled by the teacher before students can
do this independently.
Fluency Builders do just that... build oral reading f
Fluency Builders
do just that... build oral
reading fluencyfluency.
This is a general
reading award that you can present to your students for a variety of different occasions: completing a book report project,
reading a targeted number of books,
doing well on a comprehension exam about a novel
read in class, improved
reading fluency, or general improvement in
reading.
During the early months of 2002, five first - grade (second year of school) teachers were enlisted from teacher - related internet listservs, to
do a cooperative study of the relationship between
fluency in writing the alphabet, and concomitant
reading skill.
Math assessment can be
done as part of a complete educational evaluation and should include measures of untimed math calculations, math reasoning with math word problems
read aloud, and math
fluency.
If a group of students is working on the same
fluency - building activity, try
doing a group timing where all the students
read chorally as a warm - up.
Did cold
reading fluency check of another passage from online.
Did second
reading fluency check on passage accompanying story.
«I appreciate the way that the
fluency grade - level norms so closely follow the other benchmarks I find when
doing my oral
reading fluency checks.»
Since we are already required to assess our K - 5 students on universal screening measures three times a year in pre-
reading,
reading fluency and comprehension, math computation and mathematical concepts, why
do we have to lose more valuable instruction time by putting our students through these redundant assessments?
Many of these student don't qualify for a specific learning disability in the schools, but nonetheless they have problems with
reading speed,
reading fluency, and word decoding (pronunciation).