Fluency

Fluency
**DIBELS -- Measure of Fluency with Connected Text: Oral Reading Fluency (ORF): Assesses a child's skill of reading connected text in grade-level material word** **Tips to Improve Fluency Instruction** ** Modeling **  •   Model fluent, expressive, reading of a passage  •   Students track while listening  **Guided Practice with Feedback**  •   Students practice reading same passage multiple times aloud (NICHD [2000] notes up to 4 repeated reads), miscues are corrected and reviewed until firm:  Nancy Marchand-Martella, Ph.D. 
 *   Chorally in a group (whole group or small group)
 *  With adults (i.e., teacher, IA, parent, tutor)
 *  Assisted reading (i.e., tape, computer);
 *  Whisper read
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[|Video] An after-school program called RAVE-O helps to teach reading fluency in Malden, Massachusetts. [|Fluency Activity]- this site offers teachers a lesson plan for fluency in their classroom.

[|Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success]- provides activities and speed test drills to increase fluency. Theme: Fluency [|Dolch Kit]- this site provides teachers with flash cards, phrase cards, student practice cards and other tools to supplement integrating Dolch high frequency words in classroom instruction.

[|Active Reading Using the Enormous Watermelon]- students explore nursery rhymes online and identify the main character and participate in a shared reading of the big book The Enormous Watermelon.

[|Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing]- using poetry as the lens students practice readning and writing skills.

[|Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss]- students read a Dr. Seuss book and create their own book using Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss as a mentor text.

[|The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing]- students increase oral reading fluency by reading a selected story multiple times during shared and paired reading activities.

[|Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words]- this site offers insight on teaching high-frequency words while reading predictable text books.

[|Reading Rockets - Fluency]- this site offers ideas for developing fluency your classroom.
 * Resources for the Teacher**