Fluency

=**Fluency**=

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Swartz ||  || K-5 || [|www.raz-kids.com] || there is a fee for this site, it is a great tool for reading fluency || The direct and indirect approached to teaching fluency. || This article provides a background about how to teach fluency and also includes lesson ideas for developing fluent readers in the classroom. || K-6 || The reader begins practice at an easier level that builds confidence and then moves to more difficult academic language through successive approximation. || This assessment allows the teacher to assess reading ability and provides a baseline fluency rate. Additionally, the results will help the teacher narrow down the reading level of students to inform selection of books for independent reading practice. || fluency || There are several articles providing resources on the home page. This link gives guidelines for instruction: what to read, choral reading, repeated reading, etc. ||  ||   || Individual Fluency Assessment || [] || __Goals__: 1) Help children read words accurately and effortlessly. 2) Help children read with appropriate rate of reading fluency. || This article gives an indepth overview of what fluency assessment is and what the teacher needs to be looking for while assessing fluency. There are also charts that help teachers to break down assessment areas such as decoding. || All || [] Five strategies for developing reading fluency: modeling, repeated readings, phrased reading, tutors, and reader's theater. ||  || McKenna ||  || 3rd-6th ||   || These two documents are the directions and the rubric for assessing fluency. There is also a great chart that tells you where the students should be in the fall, winter, and spring. || Leon || [|This Scholastic website has a tutorial that shows how to score reading fluency] || K-2 || [|Busy Teacher Cafe - fluency] || This website has great ideas for improving students fluency. || Shuster || [] ||  || [] ||   || Rachel Messer: Each PDF file includes many strategies for teaching fluency at various grade levels K-1: [] 2-3: [] [] [] [] 4-5: [] []
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 * Dana Saenz ||  || k-3 || Fluency || Quick activities to build the skills for students to be successful in reading and writing. ||
 * Dana Saenz || [[file:Fluency%20Assessment.pdf]] ||  ||   || This assessment allows the teacher to assess reading ability and fluency rate. The results will help the teacher narrow down the reading level of students to inform selection of books for independent reading practice. ||
 * Marisa
 * Don Mackewich || [] || 3rd Grade || This is a fluency assessment that a 3rd grade teacher can use. It also includes the norms for students in grades 2-5. || I like this assessment because it contains an oral fluency roster chart already prepared. Therefore, a teacher just needs to fill in the names of his/her students and write in their scores for fall, winter, and spring. ||
 * Joanne Haberkamp ||  || All || [] || This site has everything you need to assess for fluency ||
 * Kristy Trombley || [] || k-1 ||  || This sight has a fluency assessment and also fluency activities to use with your students. Reading A-z is a good sight to use for your students ||
 * Stephanie Hayward ||  || K-3 || Fluency Strategy || This activity emphasize prosody when reading, by paying attention to punctuation. Question marks, commas, periods, and exclamation points are placed in the alphabet. Students read the elphabet using the punctuation. Really fun! ||
 * Stephanie Hayward || DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency || K-5 ||  || This is the fluency assessment we use in my district. I'm sure most of you are familiar. ||
 * Michelle Wilczak || [] || 3-5 || [] || The assessment site offers fluency testing for grades 3-5. There are five strategies a teacher can use from modeling, rereading, or creating a Reader's Theater. ||
 * Lori Losinski || [] || 1 ||  || This site allows teachers to print out grade-level reading passages and assessment sheets for fluency. ||
 * Lori Losinski ||  || k-5 || [[file:building fluency while reading.pdf]] || This provide quick lessons on building fluency while reading by using paired readings or listening while reading. ||
 * Elizabeth McKenna ||  || 2-6 || []
 * Marisa Swartz ||  ||   || [|Readers Theater] || Downloadable readers theatre scripts ||
 * Joanne Haberkamp || [] || all || [] ||  ||
 * Betsy Mueller || [] || leveled
 * Jessica Hebel || [|Reading Rockets] || k-2
 * Jessica Johnson || [] || all readers ||  || The WHAT, WHY, and HOW of reading fluency assessment and instruction. ||
 * Jessica Johnson ||  || Elementary || [] || Strategies to help students keep track of their reading fluency and improve their reading skills. ||
 * Jessica Fisk ||  || PK-2 || [] || This website links you to fluency activities from the Florida Research Center. These activities are six minute solutions that increase fluency with letters, phonograms and digraphs, common reading phrases, and in reading. My school currently uses the six minute solutions to increase fluency. ||
 * Melinda Wavra || [|fluency assessment] || K-5 || [|Fluency Strategies] || This site walks you through different strategies to try with your students to improve fluency. ||
 * Melissa Johnson || [] || K-7 || [] || The individual fluency assessment will determine where each student is fluently reading at. Also, the reading strategies provide different strategies to improve student fluency. ||
 * Kelly Gartrell || [] || 2-7
 * Traci Gabow || []
 * Carey Thomsen || [|Oral Fluency Assessments and Charts] || 1-8 || [[file:Fluency Activities.doc]] || Fluency activities from Crawley and Merritt ||
 * Julie Gregor || [|reading a-z] || K-5 || [|reading a-z] || Reading a-z has fluency passages for student to practice daily and they have assessments too ||
 * Elizabeth
 * Marietta
 * Sam
 * Jan Allardyce || [[file:Fluency Assessment.docx]] || K-3 || [[file:Fluency.docx]] ||  ||
 * Kristi Miller || Could be used as both || 1-3 || http://www.readingresource.net/readingfluency.html ||  ||