Reading fluency

1. SHANTILAL SHAH GOVERNMENTSHANTILAL SHAH GOVERNMENT
ENGINEERING COLLEGEENGINEERING COLLEGE
NAME : JITIN J PILLAINAME : JITIN J PILLAI
ROLL NO. : 3007ROLL NO. : 3007
ENROLLMENT NO. : 140430117019ENROLLMENT NO. : 140430117019
BRANCH : INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROLBRANCH : INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL
SEMESTER : 1SEMESTER : 1
YEAR : 2014YEAR : 2014
Postal Address : New Sidsar Campus
Post : Vartej, Sidsar, Bhavnagar-364060, Gujarat, India
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Website: http://www.ssgec.ac.in/

2. Reading Fluency
What is it?
The ease or “naturalness” of reading is called Reading
Fluency

3. Goal of Fluency Instruction is:
“not fast reading… but fluent
and meaning-filled reading.”

4. Key Elements of Oral Reading
• Fluency: (The flow of a reader’s delivery)
• Rate: (The speed and pattern a reader follows)
• Expression: (The use of tone, inflection, speed,
and fluency)
• Self-Monitoring: (The management of strategies
for accuracy and
appropriateness)

5. Increased Reading Fluency
comes as a result of repeated
readings.
So, we should motivate
ourselves to reread familiar
text.

6. Strategies to Build Fluency
• Read Alouds: Models Fluent Reading
• Poetry Performances
• Readers’ Theatre
• Curriculum-Based Readers’ Theatre
• Paired Reading, Choral Reading, Echo Reading

7. Read Alouds
• Models the connection between fluent reading and
meaningful reading.
• After reading aloud with expression, do some think
alouds with how you read and why?
• Metacognition: Allows students to see that meaning is
not only carried in the words, but also in the way they
are presented to the reader.

8. Read Alouds (Cont’d)
• More difficult text, expository or unfamiliar texts forces
us to slow down our reading rate for understanding
• Reading these more challenging materials to students
and discussing their understandings helps students to
see that good readers adjust their reading rate.

9. Poetry Performances
• Rhyming poetry is ideal for reading fluency instruction.
• Turns poetry into performances
• Builds fluency when students work to get their oral
reading “just right”.
• Causes students to do rereadings in a natural and
purposeful way

10. Poetry Performances Cont’d
• Here’s how it works.
• A poetry party day is selected.
• Students choose a poem to perform and practice continues
for a few days prior to the party.
• On the party day, lights are dimmed, a lamp is lit on the
teacher’s desk, hot apple cider and popcorn is served and
students take turns performing their poem.
• Students use expressive and interpretive reading

11. Readers’ Theatre
• Natural and authentic way to promote repeated
readings
• No costumes, movement, props, or scenery to express
meaning, only the performers and their expressions
• Reading rate as well as expression, and overall fluency
improves

12. Curriculum-Based Readers’
Theatre
• Use when fiction is not an integral part of the curriculum to
be taught. Time is the issue.
• Use the text or factual information as the basis for the script.
• Younger students can contribute ideas as the teachers puts
together the script.
• Older students can be given this job, one stipulation, it cannot
be boring. Give page, fact sheet, a story, set of instructions
build the script

13. Paired, Echo, Choral Reading
• Parent reading as partners, First, the parent reads the
short passage, poem to the child. Then the child and
parent reread it a number of times. Finally, the child
reads it to the parent.
• Buddy reading: Pair a third grader with a second grader.
The third grader must practice the passage from the
second grade reader before meeting with the younger
student.

14. Assessing Fluency
• Read aloud for one minute and record miscues
• Find wpm (words per minute).
• Reread same text in a number of weeks to see if rate and
/ or accuracy improved.
• Tape recording a read aloud will help to assess the
expression piece to oral reading.

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