Fluency

= **Fluency** =

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accuracy and automaticity School || This is an assessment to check oral reading fluency on middle school students. || The website provide instructions on how to administer the assessment. It also provides a video of a teacher giving the assessment. Sample assessments are also available. || Reutzel, Cooter 2011, (p213-215) || k-5 || Use this strategy to improve automaticity, rate and accuracy. Keep track of words per minute and accuracy with a simple graph. ||  || Tyrrell || Dibels (Fluency) || 1-5 || Use this strategy as a screener to test each individual child's fluency level. How many words can a child read in a one minute time period. || Fluency cards, Fry's phrases, partner reading, choral reading, and word strips to help push child's eyes across page are all strategies I recommend to help build Fluency! || [] || K-5 || Strategy 1: Use 6 Minute Fluency program to practice. Students read a passage, at their level, for one minute. They read with a partner and partner records errors. Correct words read are graphed. Other partner does the same. Students continue this process all week with the same story. Students get a new story each week. Strategy 2: Students read with expression and correct punctuation following teacher's modeling. This is an oral language strategy done at least twice a week with transparency and teacher modeling. || Dibels is a great tool to do benchmark screening and progress monitoring. Visit their website for more information. You will need to sign up and pay $1 per student. || @http://pbskids.org/lions/games/blending.html || K-3 || This game helps students recognize letter combinations and phonic pairings to increase fluency. ||  || @http://www.readnaturally.com/products/rfba.htm || 1-8 || Read Naturally is a software program you can purchase to monitor student progress, screen students for problems, and predict students' likely performance on a standardized test. || Read Naturally also has other software you can purchase besides focusing on fluency. || This website talks about the 7 steps to fluency including phrasing, assisted reading, rereading, expressing, pacing, wide reading and accuracy. It gives a description of each one so teachers can recreate them in their rooms. || This assessment gives the students a passage to read and a chart for data collection while reading. After the child has read the entry, the data can be put into an electric calculator and Scholastic will give you a score based on grade level, time of year and how well the student did on the passage. ||
 * ** Studen **** t Name ** || ** Assessment ** || ** Grade ** || ** Strategy ** || ** Comments ** ||
 * Kelly Biernat || [] || Middle
 * Daniel Brant || Individual Fluency Assessment [] || 1-7 || This is an assessment to find the levels where students show accuracy and automaticity while reading. || This assessment is to be done individually. It starts out at the first grade level and gets increasingly more difficult. ||
 * Andrea Ursitti || [] || Recommended 1-6 || This assessment determines how quickly and smoothly the student reads in a given amount of time. When this strategy is utilized the benefit of differentiating instruction according to each student's fluency needs will have a positive impact on their development. || This site offers guidance, information about scoring and utilizing the fluency assessment as well as sample passages. This site not only provides best practices but just about any resource you may need. ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || Brigance Inventory of Basic Skill || 6-12 || This assessment is given to determine where a student's grade-level is for fluent reading. ||  ||
 * Crystal Doyle ||  || K-5/6 || [] || This site offers reading strategies to help teach fluency. This link focuses on reader's theater as a way to teach fluency. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [] || special education ALL || This website offers students a weekly connection with the world through symbol-supported news articles and dozens of worksheets, games, and activities. || My students are able to "read" the newsletter with the added visual supports as well as highlites as you go along. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || DIBELS Initial Sound Fluency Measure || K || The DIBELS Initial Sound Fluency Assessment is a standardized, individually administered measure of phonological awareness that assesses a child's ability to recognize and produce the initial sound in an orally presented word || To comple this assessment the examiner presents four pictures to the child, names each picture, and then asks the child to identify (point to or say) the picture that begins with the sound produced orally by the examiner. ||
 * Jacqueline Sosin || Repeated Reading Strategy
 * Melanie
 * Emily Barbret || Dibels Next (Oral Reading Fluency with retell and DAZE comprehension component)
 * Melissa Jasmund || Fluency Game
 * Melissa Jasmund || Fluency Assessment
 * Sarah Kenyon || Scholastic Fluency Assessment[] || 3-5 || Fluency activities[]
 * Chrystal Watkins || http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4446 || 3-5 || Reading fluency norms can serve as a stable benchmark for reading fluency. Give Oral Fluency Assessment tests three times a year, fall, winter, and spring, to monitor progress over time. || This assessment also has an oral fluency calculator when you administer tests with your students. ||