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Reading Simplified | streamlined instruction, accelerated achievement

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Streamlined Reading Instruction | Reading Simplified

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Building fluency in our readers is key! Fluency can help unlock both comprehension and enjoyment for reading. I don't know about you, but I think those are pretty important parts of reading!

Today, I'm sharing some of my favorite texts and books for building fluency with our readers.

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Texts and Books for Building Fluency

So what exactly makes a good text for building fluency? When I think of texts for fluency, there are three things that pop into my mind:

1. Short passages

2. Texts with lots of dialogue

3. Texts with strong emotion

Building Fluency with Short Passages

Why use short passages? One important trick for helping learners develop reading fluency is to ask them to re-read texts. More often than not, young and struggling readers will not have reading fluency upon the first {or even second} reading. Shorter texts make the task of re-reading less daunting.

If you've seen any of my other book lists, you'll notice that poetry makes it into many of them. Especially poetry by Shel Silverstein. Well, it's in this list, too! I love that poetry is full of other skills, like figurative language. Plus, it's loaded with punctuation.

Jokes also make an easy text to re-read for fluency. {My learners love reading and retelling jokes!}

Another idea is to pull and re-type short passages from chapter books. This may appeal to your learners who are turned off by picture books because they appear "baby-ish." You can find chapter books I recommend in my chapter book lists for 2nd/3rd grades as well as my chapter book list for 4th/5th grades.

Building Fluency with Lots of Dialogue

Including texts for learners to read that include dialogue also helps learners practice fluency. This way, learners can include inflection in their voice while they are reading {and re-reading}.

Some of my favorite books for beginning readers that include dialogue include:

Again, if you're teaching older readers who may be put off my these books, pull shorter passages that include lots of dialogue from chapter books they are reading.

Building Fluency with Strong Emotion

This idea builds on the last kind of text I just mentioned. Pick passages or books that include dialogue WITH strong emotion. This helps learners "get into character" as they are reading.

Part of reading with expression is learning to read with emotion. And besides that, this can be really fun to do! Just a few picture book ideas include:

One of the things that buyers comment on the most about my Fluency Cards with Scooping Phrases is that their learners really enjoy reading the sentences with the emotion pictured.

There are quite a few emotions included in the pack, so have fun with it!

Other Favorites for Building Fluency

Reader's Theater texts are another fantastic way to build fluency. If you perform the scripts for an audience, this gives learners an authentic reason to practice re-reading for fluency. Yes!

Amazon is full of resources for Reader's Theater, but there are two place you can find them for FREE!

Timeless Teachers Stuff {scroll down to find the links}

Another set of books that I wanted to be sure and mention are the You Read to Me, I'll Read to You books. It's similar to a Reader's Theater format, but for two readers. Very cool!
What are your favorite texts for building fluency? I'd love to hear yours in the comments below!
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Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Second Grade Spelling | Workbook | Education.com

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Focusing on homophones, common words and challenging compound words, this workbook will boost the confidence of your young speller, and help him prep for any upcoming spelling bee!

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The system is designed to draw together the efforts of the school and home. So parents can log into their child's school account to do lessons at weekends and during the holidays. This will not always happen, but has huge benefits when it does.

DM Easyread online lessons take 10-15 minutes and need to be monitored by a trained facilitator. A one-on-one or two-on-one student:faculty ratio is recommended. We provide all the training necessary for success through an online training suite.

Expected reading age gain

You can expect it to take around 120 lessons for an average 8 year-old to catch up with their peers, starting from 1-2 years behind in reading age. You can see those research results reflected in the data collected by the Open University in their London trials.

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Under Comprehension on the CAFÉ menu, I teach predict what will happen; use text to confirm early in the year. Teaching students to predict is something that students catch on to very fast. I find that they sometimes begin to use the strategy too much... every time I read a page of a story someone raises their hand to share their prediction. Although making predictions may be easy, teaching primary students to confirm predictions based on the text becomes a little trickier. We must teach students to look back to see if the prediction was true, partially true, or way off.

"Based on what you have read, what do you think will happen next?"

"What from the story helped you make that prediction?"

"What from the story tells you your prediction is true/partially true/way off?"

Model this strategy during your interactive read-aloud. Tell students your predictions and what from the text helped you make that prediction. After reading a little more, return to your prediction to decide if your prediction was true, partially true, or way off.

After modeling how to predict, have students work in pairs. Ask one partner to look at the text and predict what will happen. The partners then read the text together. The second partner finds places in the selection that can prove whether the prediction was true, partially true, or way off.

Here is a lesson where the students make predictions through their illustrations.

This is examples on how to teach predictions from the book, Reading With Meaning.

This website teaches students to use predictions as a pre-reading strategy.

Miller, D. (2002). Reading with meaning . Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

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