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How can I instruct my students on fluency in a way that is relevant to them and keeps their attention?

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Giving our students the printed words to songs that they already know by heart. The song will be sung by the original artist and the student with the words in front of them. Works even better when the student already has a good knowledge of the words to the song. It has shown that by doing this with our students it not only raises fluency, but also improves comprehension.

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Frozen - Do You Want to Build A Snowman? [Extended Version] (Lyrics On Screen) HD

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I read in my research that having the closed captioning on while our students are watching television or movies is a great way to instruct fluency with them.

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Audio assisted reading requires students to read along with a tape recording of a fluent reader. As a teacher, you may want to record yourself reading fluently, or you may choose to purchase one of several fluency programs that provide a tape-recorded or a computer-generated fluent reader. Before the activity begins, set fluency goals with each student. While listening to a fluent reader read the text on tape, students read aloud softly along with the tape. Students continue to practice with tape support until they are able to read the text independently. This may be followed with one to three readings without the tape.
Below is a reading of the book Wonder that you can find for free on YouTube.

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This is a read aloud of the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio for my middle school students.

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When doing paired reading with your students, you should pair them up in a way that a student at a high level of reading is paired with a student at a low level of reading. The task should be modeled for the students with another teacher or video.
Partner 1, usually the higher-level reader, reads first paragraph. Partner follows along. Partner 2, then reads the same paragraph. Students briefly discuss what they just read by retelling what happened or by identifying the main idea of the paragraph. They can identify the main idea by asking each other: “Who or what was the paragraph mainly about?” and “What was the most important thing about the ‘who’ or the ‘what?’” Repeat steps 1–3 until passage is complete.

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Fluency is a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. Prosody, expression, rate, and automaticity are all parts of reading fluency. The goal of fluency instruction is to train students to read effortlessly so they can focus on comprehension.

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Choral reading is where the whole class reads a text together. Best practice is a song, poem, or short text. This helps the students learn from one another the proper fluency, prosody, and expression while reading a text.

https://youtu.be/0ws9irukA-k

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Whole Brain Teaching in Middle School: Choral Reading and Vocabulary Candy/Review

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This video shows how Mrs Tang, along with her 7th grade ELA class, read together (aka choral read) then review their vocabulary words after they read the paragraph the word is found in. This Whole Brain strategy is called "Vocab Candy".