Teachers have a massive goal for each student: making sure they can read words fluently! Honestly, being a strong reader is an essential part of being successful in life. However, this puts a ton of stress and pressure on teachers as they find ways to help all students. Since every student is at a different…
Learning to read is one of the most complex skills for elementary students. Between letter sounds, blends, articulation, and prosody, there is so much to process at the same time. On top of this, students actually have to understand what the words mean. Thus, it makes sense that so many students struggle to improve their…
It is heartbreaking to see students not believe in themselves. This often comes in the form of giving up, becoming frustrated, and wanting to cry. Teachers never want them to feel like this. However, learning to read can do this to students. It can be overwhelming to look at words but not know what they…
Learning how to read is such a complex task. Students must know their letters and the sounds they make. Additionally, they have to be able to blend sounds to form words. As an added challenge, they must learn about specific rules changes, such as R-controlled vowels. Thus, learning to read fluently takes a ton of…
Reading fluency is an important skill for all students, even children just learning the alphabet and letter sounds. Fluency is the ability of students to read texts effortlessly without having to pause. Speed, accuracy, and proper pronunciation are the three key components of reading fluency. Several types of reading skills go into developing fluency in…
Reading fluency is an important skill for all students, even children just learning the alphabet and letter sounds. This Phonics-Based Fluency Folder allows students to feel successful with reading, since they are practicing with decodable passages and word lists. This HUGE packet includes fluency pages for many levels of learners in your classroom. This is perfect for “Science of Reading” based instruction.
Prosody is one of the three main components in reading fluency. It relates to the expression used while reading. Beginning readers typically read word by word and do not use expression when reading aloud. A fluent reader will read in phrases instead of one word at a time. One way to improve prosody in reading…
Appropriate phrasing is such an important aspect of reading fluency. Readers need to be able to group words into phrases to make their reading sound more smoothly and like a their normal speech pattern. These fluency sentences are perfect for practicing text phrasing while reading.
Building reading fluency allows students to make the shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Students need to be able to read accurately and quickly. These fluency phrases allow students to practice reading short phrases using the 220 Dolch sight words, as well as the Dolch Noun list.
Reading fluency is the ability to read accurately and with expression. What better way to practice reading fluency than by using poetry? Poetry has a rhythm and melody that is perfect for practicing reading fluency. We all know the importance of rereading when it comes to practicing fluency, but rereading can be boring. Using cut…
This 5-Step Fluency (The Ultimate Bundle) includes 7 5-Step Fluency products to meet all the needs of your students. Students love using this unique format because they get repeated practice, but in a fun and engaging way.
Every teacher knows the importance of learning sight words, but so many times, sight words are taught in isolation. In order to really improve sight word fluency, we need to teach sight words in context. Students should be able to easily recognize sight words in the text while they are reading. Sight word fluency allows…
