Teaching fluency

Fluency tends to be a commonly overlooked skill, but you can change that by learning about strategies for teaching fluency with your elementary students!

Here are some tips and strategies on how to teach reading fluency in your homeschool or in your classroom literacy centers.

Tips for Building Reading Fluency in Young Readers Graphics by Creative Clips by Krista Wallden , Whimsy Clips , and KG Fonts Sinc...

How are you teaching your students to be fluent readers in upper elementary? This skill is a vitally important precursor for efficiency and comprehension and can give a great leg-up in state testing! Check out my FREE reading fluency lesson series to get your #upperelementary students on their way to becoming fluent readers in no time.

15 fun and easy fluency practice activities to get your K-1 students reading at a just-right pace, with accuracy and expression!

Does your reader sometimes sound like he’s just saying a string of words? Is it sometimes choppy? This can happen to all kinds of young readers, especially struggling readers. Instead of focusing on reading fluency and phrasing, struggling readers are often just trying to make sure they can say all the words correctly. Last week, The Measured ... Read More about Reading Fluency and Phrasing {Using Scooping Phrases}

We all know that students need multiple opportunities to decode phonics patterns in order to build fluency. This roll and read fluency activity is a fun and engaging way to help students receive additional practice with various phonics patterns. Check out the post to see how I use roll and read fluency in my classroom.

How to teach reading fluency in upper elementary. Your struggling readers will love the consistency of this fluency routine. Repeated readings of these fun sentences with high frequency sight words will have your students reading fluently with expression in no time! Chart student progress and watch them grow!

In kindergarten and first grade, we have poetry folders that we use for fluency practice. A while back, I blogged about my routine for poetry folders in

Fluency is an important components of reading, yet it is often neglected. What type of activities could I plan that were NOT teacher directed? To improve fluency, students need to read over and over which takes time. Time is in short supply for most teachers. Some parents listen to their children read at home, but not ALL. How could I fix this problem to ensure ALL of my students were getting enough practice? The answer was partner fluency checks. You can try a free partner fluency check…