Reading Fluency
What Is Reading Fluency?
"Fluency is the ability to read "like you speak." Hudson, Lane, and Pullen define fluency this way: "Reading fluency is made up of at least three key elements: accurate reading of connected text at a conversational rate with appropriate prosody or expression." Non-fluent readers suffer in at least one of these aspects of reading: they make many mistakes, they read slowly, or they don't read with appropriate expression and phrasing."
Finding the Right Book
This is an article from reading rockets with strategies to help your child find the right book!
Fluency Practice Pages
Click the image to be taken to reading a-z where you can find tons of reading fluency passages broken down by reading level.
What's My Child's Reading Level?
Our school utilizes the Fountas and Pinnell benchmarking system. Through this system teachers are able to assess students individually to determine what their reading level is. The reading levels are given letters from the alphabet that correspond. If you click the image to the left, there is a link to the Fountas and Pinnell website where it breaks down what reading levels go with what grade level. Please reach out to me or your student's classroom teacher if you would like to know what your child's reading level is.
ReadingFluencyOneBreathBoxesFryWords.pdfBreath Boxes
This is a resource that I use with my students to build fluency. They love the challenge of having to read a list of words without taking a breath.