Helping your child with Reading Fluency

Presented by: Mr. Koga

F.D.Roosevelt ElementaryTIIP

Five Big Ideas in Reading

Each idea is essential but NOT sufficient ALONE to achieve reading mastery

1. Phonemic awareness2. Alphabetic principle3. Fluency4. Vocabulary5. Comprehension

What is fluency?

Ability to read text smoothly, easily, and quickly

Automatically read words accurately and understand meaning rapidly

Comprehension and Fluency

Without reading fluency, readers place so much mental energy on “how to read”

that those energies are not available for comprehension or

making meaning of “what they have read.”

Strong Readers

Read words quickly, correctly, and without hesitation.

Reading is a pleasurable activity, so they read more.

Spend more time independent reading, which not only increases comprehension, but also their vocabulary, background knowledge, decoding, and fluency skills.

Struggling Readers

Plod slowly through each sentence without experiencing the joy of quick, automatic, fluent reading

Find reading laborious, so they may lose motivation in reading

Poor reading fluency may result in poor reading comprehension with material that could easily be understood if it was read aloud to them.

“Rich get richer, and the poor get

poorer.”

Fluency Practice

Both struggling readers and strong readers benefit from fluency practice

Readers are challenged to read more difficult and sophisticated text expressively with good phrasing and intonation.

Three Types of Reading that build fluency

1. Read Aloud- Nurture the LOVE of reading. A reader models great reading with fluency and expression. The reader shares his thinking with the listener throughout the text to model how meaning is gained.

2. Independent Reading- The reader actively reads by himself from a “just right” book. Fluency skills and comprehension are easily accessible.

3. Coached Reading- Side-by-side with the reader encouraging and supporting to build fluency when the reader gets stuck on a word.

Ways to support fluency

Vary the three types of reading

Make sure child has “just right” text when reading independently. Remember 5 finger rule.

Choral Reading- reading together at the same time.

Echo Reading- model reader reads, the student repeats the expressiveness and phrasing.

Repeated readings- the reader practices rereading the same passage for fluency.

Reading Rate

Words correct per minute (WCPM)

Students cannot receive a “4” for rate alone. They must have good phrasing, expression, and attend to punctuation.

Phrasing, Expression, and Punctuation

3 - Meets standard

three or four word phrases

Some expression

Attends to most punctuation.

4 - Exceeds standard

Longer, meaningful phrases

Expressive

Guided by meaning and punctuation.

Fluency CWPM (correct words per minute). Let’s try it!

Choose a partner.

Decide who will be the reader and who will be the listener.

The listener will follow the reading and listen for errors.

Questions and Answers