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Fluency is a critical facet of literacy and can be defined as “reasonably accurate reading, at an appropriate rate, with suitable expression, that leads to accurate and deep comprehension and motivation to read”. Hasbrouck & Glaser, 2012
Reading Fluently Does Not Mean Reading Fast --From the International Literacy Association. Good introduction to the multiple facets of reading fluency.
Reading Fluency: Tasks, Texts, and Teaching— presentation notes include research findings and fluency components as well as best tasks for fluency growth
Six Dimensions of Fluency--you can use this form to help assess fluency or to get minilesson ideasÂ
Why Should We Reread Familiar Materials?--share this with parents to help them understand the importance of rereading
Readers Theater Strategy Guide--This resource from ReadWriteThink gives research, practice ideas, and lesson plans with printouts. Great way to develop fluency!
Adjusting the Gears: Teaching Readers to be Phrased and Fluent--Webinar from Pioneer Valley Books with Jan Richardson and Michele Dufresne. Handout from webinar HERE.
Fluency for Small Groups-- Lots of fluency activity ideas and free resources to download (in folder)
Kid Teacher from The Daily Cafe™ --Free student-friendly videos that are great to introduce or review aspects fluency.Â
Four Effective Ways to Improve Fluency--teaching ideas for small group lessons
Reading Fluency Activity: Read and Record--step-by-step directions for how to model, then have students record, listen, and analyze their reading for fluent behaviors
Dr. Chase Young Readers Theater--This site has the number of parts listed with the script titles. Various levels. Â
Reading A-Z Readers Theater Scripts--Must have a Reading A-Z account to access (there is a 14 day free trial available). Scripts adapted from their leveled books and other sources. Organized by grade level.Â
Wise Owl Factory --Scroll down past the busy welcome banner to find ten scripts at various levels.
**Googling “Readers Theater” will give you many other options. Some databases I found had many inactive or non-working links. I didn’t include these sites in the above list, but there still may be worthwhile scripts on them.
Ken Nesbitt’s Poetry 4 Kids--This site gives you the ability to search poetry based on reading level. Many are also recorded (not by a robot!) so students can listen/read along with a model. Also all can be printed.Â
Myon--Search "poem" and discover over a dozen poetry collections at various reading levels.