Let me begin with this very clear point: fluency is MORE than just reading fast. It is so much more. The rate of reading (words read correctly per minute) is only ONE MEASURE of fluency. So whenever I address the concept of fluent reading with my students, I am careful to stress that they always do their best reading..
The GORT-5 is an oral reading fluency and comprehension test. Complete Kit includes: Examiner's Manual, Student Book, and 25 Examiner Record Booklets each for Forms A and B. Norm-referenced; standard scores, percentiles, age and grade equivalents. Testing time 20–30 minutes. Ages 6;0–23;11. (2012)
Looking to build fluency with your students that is aligned to the science of reading? In this oral reading fluency practice BUNDLE, students will practice decoding words with all short vowels (a, e, i, o, u) as well as tricky "heart" words. Students will then practice building their fluency with the repetition and repeated reading provided in the pyramid sentences. In a pyramid sentence, students start with the first word, and then work their way down until they have read the complete sentence. This oral repeated reading allows students to solidify and commit words to memory in a way that will progress into fluid and fluent reading. A digital version is provided through Google Slides, where students will click through and read the slides with the pyramid sentences. THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES: Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading | short a Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading | short e Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading | short i Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading | short o Oral Reading Fluency Practice | Science of Reading | short u ***Total of 30 pages of fluency oral repeated reading sentences*** EACH RESOURCE INCLUDES: 12 total pages Title Page, Terms of Use, & Copyright page Directions page 6 pages of fluency practice of short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u), and tricky "heart words" Total of 36 Pyramid sentences to practice oral repeated reading KEY FEATURES: No Prep - just print and use! Helps students become fluent readers by increasing their word recognition and speed [Reading Fluency Common Core Standards] Students practice decoding words with short vowel sounds and tricky "heart" words (Science of Reading aligned) Can easily be used in reading centers or small group instruction Digital Version (Google Slides) an be assigned in Google Classroom or any LMS Do you want your students setting goals and tracking their progress in reading? Check out this product to help your students be accountable of their learning: 2nd Grade Progress Monitoring Data Tracking & Goals Posters DIBELS 8 1st Grade Progress Monitoring Data Tracking & Goals Posters DIBELS 8 Other great resources to support you in teaching reading: 2nd Grade Roll and Answer Literature Standards 2nd Grade Roll and Answer Informational Standards 2nd Grade Ask & Answer Questions | Reading Comprehension Passages RL2.1 ⭐Freebie ALERT! ⭐ Want a great phonics resource to help your students map and segment out sounds while decoding and spelling? Check out my FREEBIE - Elkonin Boxes & Segmentation Mats! Looking for a fun way to manage classroom discussion and partner talk? Check out my FREEBIE - Partner Talk Cards!
Fluency can be a fun but challenging skill to teach. But this engaging strategy for fluency practice will make a tremendous impact on students' fluency.
Nonsense word fluency offers an effective approach to assessing phonics skills, encompassing decoding, blending, and overall reading fluency. It serves as a foundational skill that boosts oral reading fluency, a crucial element of proficient reading and comprehension. Aligned with the Science of Reading, this activity is versatile and suitable for independent work, partner activities, homework, and differentiation. Engaging in nonsense word fluency exercises allows students to showcase their grasp of letter-sound correspondence and enhances their ability to blend unfamiliar words. Get it on TPT Proficiency in nonsense word fluency facilitates the decoding of unknown words within texts, thereby improving reading comprehension. This resource includes 64 worksheets focused on nonsense word fluency. Students will engage in exercises that involve reading both real and nonsense words and filling in the missing words. Skills included in this resource: Short a Nasalized A (am, an) Short i Short o Short u Short e Short Vowels (all) FLSZ Spelling Rule -all, -oll, -ull ck /k/ sh /sh/ th /th/ voiced th /th/ unvoiced ch /ch/ wh /w/ Digraphs Review ng nk L Blends S Blends R Blends Mixed Blends Ending Blends a_e /ā/ i_e /ī/ o_e /ō/ e_e /ē/ u_e /ū/, /yū/ Long Vowels Review _ce /s/ _ge /j/ -es -ed /d/ /t/ /ed/ -ing Compound Words tch /ch/ dge /j/ Long VCC: -ild, -old, -ind, -olt, -ost y /ī/ y /ē/ -le ar /ar/ or /or/, ore /or/ er /er/ ur /er/ ir /er/ w+or /er/ R Controlled Vowel Vowel Teams - ai / ay Vowel Teams - ee / ea/ ey Vowel Teams – oa/ow/oe /ō/ Vowel Teams – ie/ igh /ī/ Mixed Vowel Teams Other Vowel Teams - ew, ui, ue /ū/ Other Vowel Teams - au, aw, augh /aw/ Diphthongs - oi/ oy /oi/ Diphthongs – ou/ow /ow/ Mixed Diphthongs kn /n/ wr /r/ mb /m/ This bundle is included in The Ultimate Science of Reading ENDLESS BUNDLE. Click here to find out more: Conveniently print and go, this resource also includes an answer key for easy grading and feedback! Disclaimer: This is a digital product that will be delivered via email. You will not be receiving anything in the mail.
Looking to build fluency with your students that is aligned to the science of reading? In this oral reading fluency practice activity, students will practice decoding words with short i (CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC) and tricky "heart" words. This activity allows students to practice decoding short a CVC words, as well as words with initial and final blends. Students will then practice building their fluency with the repetition and repeated reading provided in the pyramid sentences. In a pyramid sentence, students start with the first word/words, and then work their way down until they have read the complete sentence. This oral repeated reading allows students to solidify and commit words to memory in a way that will progress into fluid and fluent reading. A digital version is provided through Google Slides, where students will click through and read the slides with the pyramid sentences. THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES: 12 total pages Title Page, Terms of Use, & Copyright page Directions page 6 pages of decodable short i and tricky "heart words" Total of 36 Pyramid sentences to practice oral repeated reading KEY FEATURES: No Prep - just print and use! Helps students become fluent readers by increasing their word recognition and speed [Reading Fluency Common Core Standards] Students practice decoding short i words and tricky "heart" words (Science of Reading aligned) Can easily be used in reading centers or small group instruction Digital Version (Google Slides) an be assigned in Google Classroom or any LMS Liked this oral repeated reading fluency practice? Check out my other short vowel repeated reading practices: Short o Oral Repeated Reading Short a Oral Repeated Reading Do you want your students setting goals and tracking their progress in reading? Check out this product to help your students be accountable of their learning: 2nd Grade Progress Monitoring Data Tracking & Goals Posters DIBELS 8 1st Grade Progress Monitoring Data Tracking & Goals Posters DIBELS 8 Other great resources to support you in teaching reading: 2nd Grade Roll and Answer Literature Standards 2nd Grade Roll and Answer Informational Standards 2nd Grade Ask & Answer Questions | Reading Comprehension Passages RL2.1 ⭐Freebie ALERT! ⭐ Want a great phonics resource to help your students map and segment out sounds while decoding and spelling? Check out my FREEBIE - Elkonin Boxes & Segmentation Mats! Looking for a fun way to manage classroom discussion and partner talk? Check out my FREEBIE - Partner Talk Cards!
Learning how to read is a complex process for all students. When you are teaching reading to ELLs, there is the added challenge that they are learning the vocabulary of English as they learn how to read. Some ELLs have the benefit of knowing how to read in their native language. This is helpful as
This reader's theaterscript builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles. This tall tale script tells the story of Molly Pitcher and ho...
Help your students build independence while working on their oral reading fluency using this Fluency Checklist. Perfect for use in grades 3-5 for those students that need to practice working on their accuracy, expression, and rate while reading.
Grab this complete set of digital 3rd grade reading fluency passages which include EVERYTHING for reading comprehension and fluency practice.
This historical reader's theaterscript builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles. This script tells the story of two immigrant famil...
What is Oral Language? Oral Language skills are an important component of language development. It is made up of at least five key components (Moats 2010) including phonological skills, pragmatics, syntax, morphological skills, and vocabulary. Students need opportunities throughout the day to practice their speaking and listening skills. For English Language Learners this is particularly important
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays all about character education and social-emotional learning skills have been carefully designed to review it all! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audience. Science of Reading: The science of reading recommends explicit fluency practice with connected texts in the upper grades. These plays are perfect for this! This set of Character Education Reader’s Theater Plays Includes: 10 High-Interest Reader’s Theater Play Scripts 1 Reader Reflection Page for each play with a focus on exploring a single type of character education skill 1 Audience Reflection Page for each play with a focus on SEL These Plays include 55 student parts total: 7 Plays: Parts for five students 1 Play: Parts for six students 2 Plays: Parts for seven students What makes these plays unique? 10 plays with a variety of student roles: This allows for smaller groups to maximize reading time and fluency practice, more collaboration with smaller group sizes, differentiation options, and ensures that everyone has a valuable part in the play. This also makes planning easier for teachers with various class sizes. SEL-Based Plays: These plays have been written to focus specifically on helping students explore ten different character education skills Reader Tasks for Comprehension: Each play has a one-page reader task that asks students to think critically about the content of their play and gives students a chance to analyze the character education Audience Tasks for Comprehension: Hold all of your students accountable with these audience tasks! Which types of character education/SEL skills are covered in these plays? Building Community Classroom Rules and Responsibilities Self-Acceptance and Accepting Others Kindness Accountability Friendship Self-Control Problem-Solving Optimism Assumptions A Note on SEL: The term "SEL" is not incorporated into this product. Each play focuses on certain personal growth skills. A Note on Grade Levels: These plays are meant to practice fluency and reading skills with students reading at a 3rd-5th grade level. They have been intentionally written to include text complexities that students will often encounter, including a variety of sentence types, affixes, inflections, interjections, punctuation, expression, etc. Please be sure to view the preview to determine whether or not they are a good fit for your students. Other readers theater scrips to practice reading skills: Seasonal Reader's Theater Plays - a GIANT Bundle! Skill Based Reader's Theater BUNDLE Figurative Language Reader’s Theater Scripts Looking for more SEL resources? Look no further! Using Picture Books for Character Education Need more fluency activities for upper elementary? Here they are! Fluency Task Cards for the Whole Year FREE Oral Reading Fluency Checklist
A HUGE (discounted) bundle of 128 Fluency Task Cards with varied sentence types to help your students practice their oral reading fluency! Perfect small group, whole group, or independent center fluency activity. This is a combination bundle of my 4 Fluency Task Card Products: Original Mixed Fluency Practice Task Cards Affixes Fluency Task Cards Dialogue Fluency Task Cards Expression & Punctuation Task Cards Includes both a PRINTABLE and DIGITAL version of each card. **Note: This resource has received a complete edit and update as of August 18, 2022* Digital Version Note: Please note that the digital version contains each card on its own slide. These are not editable or interactive, but are meant to be assigned to students to practice their oral reading fluency at home. Science of Reading: The science of reading recommends explicit fluency practice with connected texts in the upper grades. These passages are perfect for this! I created these for my students to practice their fluency of phrases and sentences. I found a lot of LONG fluency passages, and I found a lot of short sentences or phrase passages, but I wanted something different, so I created these, with various sentence structures that students commonly find in texts. You can use them in a variety of ways. I had each of my students read each card three times (repeated readings) in an independent reading center (I happened to have a parent volunteer monitoring this center on that particular day). I have also had students read the cards to each other, taking turns, in an independent center. I also had a teacher use them to do a quick reading warm up, giving each student a card, and having him or her read it out loud to the entire class. You can use these 32 different times for warm ups, giving students a different card each time! I include a simple recording sheet that has 5 place for students to rate their reading (the 5 spaces are intended for repeated readings). However you choose to use them, have fun! My students and I love color, but these cards print perfectly fine in black and white, too! **Ideal for grades 3-6.** LOVE FLUENCY TASK CARDS!? Check out my Fluency Task Cards for the ENTIRE YEAR! ***HOLIDAY Fluency Task Cards*** Christmas Fluency Task Cards Summer Fun Fluency Task Cards Halloween Fluency Task Cards
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This historical reader's theaterscript builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles. This script tells the story of Dr. John McCrae, wh...
GORT-5 Form A. Package of 25. Form includes 16 developmentally sequenced reading passages with five comprehension questions each.
Parents often ask how they can help their child at home. These parent handouts can be sent home at the end of the school year or they are great to have on hand during conferences. Not only are handouts available for improving oral reading fluency, there are also handouts for a variety of topics relating ... Read More about Parent Handout- Improving Oral Reading Fluency
15 reading fluency activities you can do in minutes a day with strategies to improve reading fluency in your slow, choppy reader. Reading fluency games online, printable reading fluency games, reading passages and more! Education ideas - what are the 3 components of reading fluency? Wanting to know how to help your child read faster? Check out these ideas for reading fluency games, printable reading fluency games, timed reading games, plus reading fluency activities pdf format to print. If you find yourself asking - I want to know how to help my child read more fluently, check out these reading fluency activities, games, kindergarten fluency activities games, and other strategies to improve reading fluency.
As a teacher, my ultimate goal for students is to enjoy reading and feel confident picking out books to read in their free time. There are many elements to
Repeated reading is a research-based instructional strategy with the goal of increasing decoding automaticity skills. The goal of repeated reading is not for students to become “fast readers”. Rather, we want students to read the words accurately, with intonation, and at a rate that is comparable to the speed of oral language. This resource was created to provide a rereading routine for students who would benefit from increasing accurate and automatic fluency skills. It is designed to be led by older students or volunteers, who assist younger students in the rereading routine. While it can be implemented as often as desired, we used this rereading routine three times a week for 6 weeks. Each student who participated in the fluency friends rereading routine was paired with a fifth-grade student who volunteered the first 10 minutes of their recess time. The older students used the assembled toolkits to walk their readers through the day’s rereading routine by following the instructions on the card. Each toolkit contained all of the materials needed for the lessons. This resource is designed to be used with passages or texts that you, the teacher, supply each week, based on the student’s decoding skills and needs. Please note, that no texts or passages are included with this resource. It can be used in conjunction with whatever word recognition curriculum, program, or texts you use. What does the rereading routine look like? (We chose the routine to take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You can edit and choose the days of the week that work best for your classroom.) Monday: Modeling Day. Volunteers led the student through a series of modeling exercises. They first read the passage to the student, modeling fluent reading. Next, they did a choral reading with the student. Last, they scooped the sentences in the passage for the student, and practiced fluent phrasing with the student. If time allowed, the student reread the passage an additional time. Wednesday: Fluency Fun Day. During Day 2, peers and students used novelty reading tools to reread the passage in engaging ways! Flashlights, microphones, mini cards, and reading pointer wands are used throughout the lesson. This rereading day is designed to be motivating and encourage as much rereading practice of the week’s passage as possible. The card for Day 2 acts as a "choice menu" to practice rereading the passage or text several times. Friday: The final day of each week is called “Beat Your Time Day”. A highlighter or pencil, and a sand timer is used on day 3. The student reads the passage. At the end of one minute, the peer leader draws a line after the last word read. The routine above is repeated, and the student tries to read farther than he or she did the first time. If time allows, the reader tries to read even more than his or her second reading. When can this routine take place? Fluency Friends is a perfect routine to fit into a center time, intervention block, before school, during a designated "no new teaching time", or during small group time. It's also a great way for parents to help their children with rereading practice at home! What grade(s) is this resource designed for? You can use this resource and rereading routine for ANY student who is reading connected text! Kindergarteners who are reading short decodable passages, first and second grade students, and upper elementary students who could benefit from increased rereading practice will love this routine! Thank you so much for learning more about Fluency Friends! -Christina DeCarbo Miss DeCarbo, Inc. Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved.
Fluency includes a variety of components making it an incredibly important aspect of any balanced literacy program. When students are working on fluency, they're improving their overall abilities as a reader. By incorporating fluency activities into your daily literacy plans, readers will show improvements in many areas of reading. This includes: accuracy, pace, smoothness, expression and comprehension. In order to help readers improve their fluency, you need to provide opportunities for a model of oral reading. This can be done through daily read alouds. You also need to provide frequent practice, with your assistance, and for students on their own. This can be done through partner activities, small groups and independent work.
Get the most recent Hasbrouck and Tindal fluency norms, a free diagnostic reading fluency assessments, and free comprehension lessons.
Learning how to read is a complex process for all students. When you are teaching reading to ELLs, there is the added challenge that they are learning the vocabulary of English as they learn how to read. Some ELLs have the benefit of knowing how to read in their native language. This is helpful as
Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring – Grade 1 Introduction *** Check out my other Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring Resources for Grades 2, 3, 4, and 5. Click on the "Oral Reading Fluency" tab under the "All Resources" section on the left side of my store. Fluent reading is an important part of reading well. Fluent reading is made up of three main parts: accurate word reading, the speed at which words are read accurately, and expression, also known as prosody. With Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring - Grade 1 students will practice oral reading of texts and be monitored for progress on a weekly basis. The practice will help improve fluency, especially for English Language Learners. The monitoring will help provide teachers, students, and parents with information that can be used to determine instructional strategies to help improve fluency. Two Levels of Reading Passages This product is designed to be used starting in the middle of the first grade school year. This is when practice and monitoring oral reading fluency for students in first grade is effective. This grade 1 level product has 30 passages at the grade 1 level and 30 passages at the grade 2 level. The passages are at or near the middle of their grade in reading difficulty. For example, the grade one passages are at or near the middle of grade one. The grade two passages are at or near the middle of grade two. Assessing and Progress Monitoring Once each student's instructional level has been determined, the teacher will use the first three passages at that grade level to assess the student's correct words per minute (cwpm), word accuracy, and expression. The teacher takes the median of the three scores (accuracy, cwpm, and expression rubric) to use as initial baseline data for accuracy, cwpm, and expression. The student will read and practice one passage each week throughout the school year. The next twenty-four passages will be used to progress monitor the students. A passage will be read on the first day of a week. It will be practiced throughout the week through fluency strategies such as choral reading, taped reading, partner reading, echo reading, and repeated reading. Graphing Student Results The teacher or student can graph the fluency scores for the first "cold" reading of the passage for the week. The student will read the passage again at the end of the week. The fluency scores for the "hot" reading will be recorded on the graph as well by either the teacher or student. Accuracy, cwpm, and an expression score using an expression fluency rubric will be recorded on separate graphs. Blank graphs for these results are included. Comprehension Questions Included with each passage is a set of four multiple-choice comprehension questions. The questions are on a separate sheet from the passage. The teacher can decide to have the student answer the questions after the first reading, any of the readings during the week, or after the last reading of the week. These questions help determine if the students are comprehending the passage. If the students are able to read the passage fluently with the proper accuracy, cwpm, and expression, but struggles with comprehending, the teacher will need to direct instruction to help improve comprehension skills. End-of-Year Assessment The last three passages at each grade level can be used as an assessment at the end of the year to show progress. They also can be used as three more weeks of progress monitoring and just the last passage can be used to show the end-of-the-year progress. TEKS Standards for Oral Reading Fluency The Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Reading for Grade 1 include fluency as a component. ”Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. (Grade 1 – Common Core Standards for English Language Arts – CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4 Adopted 2021. The Importance of Reading Fluently Readers need to be able to read fluently out loud. They need to be able to read words accurately, at a smooth rate, and with expression. They must be able to recognize many words automatically. Students also need to be able to have skills necessary to decode and pronounce words as they are reading. Readers that are able to do this are able to direct more of their attention to the meaning of the text. Fluent readers are able to spend most of their time making connections to and with the text and understanding what they are reading. Readers struggling with fluency are less able to do this. Fluent reading is important. Students that read on their instructional level, at the rate appropriate to their grade level, and with adequate or better expression are well on their way to use reading as a lifelong skill that will enable them to learn about and enjoy the world around them. Fluent reading can be instructed and practiced. It can be monitored for progress. Students can learn to have confidence in how they read and continue to improve their oral reading skills. Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring - Grade 1 can help students become more fluent readers. Fluent reading is an important part of reading well. Fluent reading is made up of three main parts: accurate word reading, the speed at which words are read accurately, and expression, also known as prosody. With Oral Reading Fluency: Practice and Progress Monitoring - Grade 1 students will practice oral reading of texts and be monitored for progress on a weekly basis. The practice will help improve fluency, especially for English Language Learners. The monitoring will help provide teachers, students, and parents with information that can be used to determine instructional strategies to help improve fluency.
Have you ever given your students the opportunity to record and listen to themselves read? As teachers, we frequently observe and conference with our students about their oral reading fluency. However, it can be much more meaningful for students to actually hear and evaluate themselves. Last year I started doing fluency self-evaluations as a center and was very pleased with the ownership my students began to take toward achieving their reading goals. My second graders used the free workflow app Showbie to complete their fluency self-evaluations. After practicing their passage several times, they recorded themselves reading it aloud. Once they played back their recording they filled out the rubric, along with their goals for next time, and sent it to me via Showbie. If you don’t have a class set of iPads, you may want to try one of the many free voice recording apps by doing a search in the app store. One of the best and most user-friendly apps I’ve found is Voice Recorder by Tap Media (free). Students simply press the “Record” button and then “Stop” when they are finished. Then they press the “Play” button to hear their recording. There’s even the option to save recordings in folders if you want to keep a record of your students’ progress. You can grab my rubric for free by clicking HERE or on the image below.
View the results of the updated 2017 study on oral reading fluency (ORF) by Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal, with compiled ORF norms for grades 1-6. You'll also find an analysis of how the 2017 norms differ from the 2006 norms.
Fluency is reading with accuracy while paying attention to pace, phrasing, expression and punctuation. It's an important literacy skill that develops with practice. One of the most successful and effective methods of becoming a fluent reader is repeated reading. Repeating reading is a research-based practice that focuses on repetition to improve reading fluency. The idea is that students read a passage or short text multiple times so that they can become more automatic with their decoding. According to research, repeated reading can lead to improvements in reading speed and accuracy. The goal is to shift their focus from decoding to
Oral reading fluency rubrics that incorporate the 3 areas of fluency: prosody, automaticity, and accuracy.