Resources
Below are five literacy resources that provide research based instructional ideas and information about teaching fluency skills.
Below are five literacy resources that provide research based instructional ideas and information about teaching fluency skills.
This website gives ten different resources that teachers can use during fluency instruction in the elementary grades. The resources span from fluency activities to fluency assessments that can be used in the classroom. It goes into detail on how to use activities like readers theater, choral reading, and many others for the best results. It also discusses the purpose for all of the resources it gives and why you should use them. It also gives a fluency norms chart and discusses understanding fluency assessments.
This resource is all about evidence-based fluency instruction. It gives good insite into the roles accuracy, rate, and prosody all play in reading fluency. As well as discussing the most affect ways to teach fluency through developing accuracy, rate, and prosody. At the bottom of the page it gives a few activities that have been proven to support fluency development like repeated reading, choral reading, etc.
In this article the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities gives five recommendations for ways to improve reading fluency improving reading fluency among struggling readers in elementary and secondary grades. It covers developing students ability to decode words, ensuring that each student reads connected text every day to support reading rate, accuracy, and expression, Modeling reading fluency for your students, Taking advantage of repeated reading routines, Setting fluency goals and using progress-monitoring data to inform instruction, and taking action with these recommendations.
This website gives a view different strategies and activities that can be used in the classroom to help improve your students reading fluency. They include focusing on fry's instant sight words (This sight word list was created by Dr. Edward William Dolch mostly in the 1930s and included the most commonly used words in the English language).early and often, a systematic and sequential phonics and decoding program, technology-assisted support provided by a comprehensive literacy program called lightsail, the use of readers theater for expression, and increased reading time.
This website briefly explains what fluency is before going into the seven steps to a S.M.A.R.T.E.R research based instruction framework. First is Systematic instruction. Then Multisensory instruction. The third step is Applied instruction. The fourth is Research behind the instruction. After that is the fifth step Targeted instruction. The sixth is Explicit instruction. And lastly the seven step is Realistic instruction.