Reading Seed Fluency Strategy Cards

Choral Reading

Coach and student read the same text aloud in unison. Reading together allows the student a chance to practice phrasing and tone, while benefitting from the coach’s modeling. Steps:

1) For first reading, coaches should track the words on the page to help model fluent reading.

2) For the second and following readings, students should track the words on the page with their fingers to help follow along and focus attention on the words on the page.

Echo Reading Allows students to practice proper phrasing and expression while building oral fluency. Helps students gain confidence in reading aloud, learn sight words, and read material that is too difficult to read alone, and practice proper phrasing and expression. Steps:

1) Coach reads a sentence or a paragraph at a time while the student follows along in the text with their fingers.

2) Once the coach pauses, the student echoes back the same sentence or paragraph.

Make sure the student uses his/her finger to follow along to ensure that they are actually reading and not mimicking you.

Reader’s Theater A form of script reading that does not require the formal aspects of putting on a play such as props, costumes, or memorizing lines. Offers an entertaining and engaging means of improving fluency and enhancing comprehension. Poems can also be used in place of scripts when working with 1 student at a time.

Steps:

1) Student reads the text multiple times in order to become fluent.

2) Student then reads the text expressively and dramatically without memorization or acting out the lines.

Repeated Reading Students read the same reading passage or text repeatedly until a desired level of reading fluency is achieved. Steps:

1) Coach chooses a passage to read that is slightly above the student’s instructional level but still one that will promote success. A passage with approximately 100 words is desirable.

2) Read repeatedly until the student achieves a desired level of fluency or until the student has read the text four times.

3) Assist the student when s/he misreads or hesitates for longer than five seconds, requests help or asks for a definition. Have the student repeat the word correctly after you before continuing through the passage.

Reading Seed Fluency Strategy Cards

Fluency Phrases

Students repeatedly practice reading short phrases written on sentence strips until they master the desired level of fluency.

Fluency Phrases- 1st 100 Words http://www.readingresource.net/support-files/shortsentences1.pdf Fluency Phrases- 2nd 100 Words http://www.readingresource.net/support-files/shortsentences2.pdf Fluency Phrases- 3rd 100 Words http://www.readingresource.net/support-files/shortsentences3.pdf

Ring Words

Students practice a set of words until the desired level of fluency is reached. Steps:

1) Coach selects words that are difficult for students.

2) The words are written on index cards and attached to a metal ring.

3) Student practices 5-10 words during each meeting.

4) If the student is able to read the word without any help, a tally mark is written on the card.

When 10 tallies are on the word card, it is taken off of the ring.

Drip Drop/ Ribbit/ Cookie Thief A game that combines repeated reading and short fluency phrases. Steps:

1) Student draws a playing card. 2) If the student draws a fluency card,

s/he reads the sentence. If the student reads the sentence fluently, the student keeps the card. If the student doesn’t read the sentence fluently, the card goes back in the drawing pile.

3) A Bonus Scoop/Fly/Cookie Card means an extra turn

4) Drip Drop/Ribbit/Thief Cards mean the student has to put some of their cards back

There are three variations of this game. Their themes and fluency sentences differ. http://pinterest.com/shirleybl/fluency/