Fifth Grade Fluency Facts
Students should be reading a minimum of at least 110 words correct per minute (wcpm) by the fall, 127 by midyear, and 139 by the spring. This is on a grade level text.
Fluency can be related to a deficiency in phonics and it can mean a student just needs more practice with phrasing etc.
Some activities to improve fluency are:
Use the stop light method to assist with fluency. Mark the beginning of each sentence green, the commas, semi-colons yellow and the ending punctuation red. Breathe and bring lips together when you get to the red lights.
Decompose and sound out words you do not know. Look for meaning in these words.
Choral read. Read at the same time with a skilled reader.
Echo read. Read the same sentence after a skilled reader.
Repeated reading of the same text, usually over a week. Time the first time (cold read) and the last time (warm read) and chart data over time.
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