Partner Reading: Paired Reading is designed to increase the accuracy with which students read connected text. It is appropriate for students who have adequate phonetic skills but who struggle applying those skills to reading text. Students who would likely respond best to this intervention are those who accurately read substantially less than 93% of the words from grade-level text. This intervention increases accuracy.

Repeated Readings ("Beat the dot"): Repeated readings increases reading fluency by re-reading the same text multiple times with error correction.

Passage Preview: Listening Previewing enhances reading fluency and comprehension by discussing key vocabulary words and providing an opportunity for students to hear what they will read prior to independent reading. Listening previewing facilitates accurate responding. It is only appropriate for students who have adequate decoding skills but who also make frequent errors while reading or who have adequate reading fluency but struggle with comprehension.

Phrase Drill: promotes generalization of reading words in text and focuses on increasing rate of reading.

Recommended Progress Monitoring:

Reading Fluency (one minute per student) - use this link to access directions and passages