Maintain Fluency

Maintain Fluency: a within the text strategic action, readers read at a good rate, with phrasing, pausing, intonation and appropriate stress.

Minilesson Resources

What is Fluency?: from busyteacherscafe.com, suggestions for activities to support all aspects of fluency instruction.

Building Fluency: from readingrockets.org, tools and strategies to use in the classroom to support development of fluency before, during and after reading.


Reading Fluency Activities: from Readingresource.net, many suggestions for activities, literacy centers, games and lessons that include free printable resources to support fluency instruction.

Anchor Charts:

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Grade Level Expectations

(from Continuum of Literacy Learning, Fountas and Pinnell, 2012)

PreK

• point crisply and read at a steady rate slow enough to match voice to print but without long pauses
• notice and use end punctuation and reflect it in voice

Kindergarten

• identify and read phrases as word groups
• reflect words in bold with the voice
• notice and use quotation marks and reflect dialogue with voice
• reflect punctuation through appropriate pausing and intonation while reading orally
• demonstrate appropriate stress on words in a sentence

First Grade

• demonstrate phrased, fluent oral reading
• read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflects understanding of characters and events
• demonstrate awareness of the function of the full range of punctuation
• demonstrate appropriate stress on words, pausing and phrasing, intonation, and use of punctuation
• use multiple sources of information (language structure, meaning, fast word recognition) to support fluency and phrasing
• solve most words in the text quickly and automatically to support fluency
• read silently at a good rate

Second Grade

• demonstrate phrased, fluent oral reading
• read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflects understanding of characters and events
• demonstrate awareness of the function of the full range of punctuation
• use multiple sources of information (language structure, meaning, fast word recognition) to support fluency and phrasing
• read with high accuracy in a way that support fluency
• read silently and orally at an appropriate rate (not too fast, not too slow) for comprehending

Third Grade

• demonstrate phrased,
• fluent oral reading
• read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflects understanding of characters and events
• demonstrate appropriate stress on words, pausing and phrasing, intonation. and use of punctuation while reading in a way that reflects understanding
• use multiple sources of information (language structure, meaning, fast word recognition) to support fluency and phrasing

Fourth Grade

• read dialogue with phrasing and expression that reflects understanding of characters and events
• demonstrate appropriate stress on words, pausing and phrasing, intonation, and use of punctuation while reading in a way that reflects understanding

Fifth Grade