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Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading
This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Scholastic
Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guest Readers
Mix up reading time by having your own students transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Fluency
Fluent readers can read text accurately, smoothly, and with good comprehension. Students who get bogged down in the mechanics of reading have trouble with this skill. With proper instruction, struggling readers can improve their fluency.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
This activity guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Adjectives, People, Places & Things
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students are introduced to adjectives as a part of speech. Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Word Workout
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression. Practice with some Kindergarten sight words.