My fluency checklist for free#

Daily Lessons for Oral Reading Fluency Day 1: Accuracy Here is an overview of the lessons I teach each day as I introduce reading fluency.

My fluency checklist for free#

If you’d like to make your anchor chart look like mine, you can download the printable elements for free HERE, but again, please make sure you make it an interactive experience with your students… especially the handwritten part! However, if you create it WITH them, they will know exactly what it says and know when to reference it. It does little good if you make it and then just hang it up one day. Remember to create this fluency anchor chart WITH you students. Here is the fluency anchor chart that we build as we learn about each element of a fluent reader.

Everything you need to implement these five days of fluency lessons is completely FREE. Since we use them so frequently in centers, it’s a good way to start. I use my Fluency Task Cards in all of the lessons. These mini lessons only need to take 10 minutes with five minutes or so of practice. Teaching Kids About Fluencyīut before you have students working on developing fluency, they need to know what it is, how they can improve it, and of course, what it sounds like. I truly believe that some direct instruction on reading fluency is key to student growth.Įach year, I start out with a few mini lesson on reading fluency. You could do these fluency lessons all in one day, but I find it more effective to really focus on one element of fluency each day for a week and then combine it all. We can’t stop practicing! It’s our obligation to solidify these essential reading skills to set our students up for success. The words and complexity of texts they are expected to read fluently in 2nd grade are wildly different than those in 4th and 5th grade. Not just in 2nd grade, not just in 3rd grade, but in 4th and 5th grade, too. We have to place a focus on building fluent readers if we want to build efficient readers who comprehend what they are reading.įluency, then, simply has to be front and center in our reading instruction.

This automaticity (fluency) allows readers to focus on the actual act of reading and enables them to put their energy and focus into understanding and synthesizing the text. Building reading fluency and freeing students from the task of decoding allows them to build automaticity.

Multi-tasking is tough for even the most skilled readers. Research shows that reading fluency is a direct indicator of comprehension success. In other words, when students can read fluently, they are significantly more likely to understand what they are reading. Oral reading fluency is always one of my reading rotations because I so strongly believe in the importance of building fluent readers who have developed the ability to read accurately, at a natural pace, and with excellent prosody/expression. Today’s topic is oral reading fluency, which is one of the very first “reading skills” I teach at the beginning of the year!įirst, a little bit of background about why I insist on including oral reading fluency instruction in ALL of my elementary classrooms. One of the top questions I get is always about how I run my math and reading rotations. As I prepare to share those formats with you, I’ll be sharing some of the components of them individually as well.