The first person to read will read the passage smoothly and fast. I want for each of you to take turns reading the passage. Say, “I am going to pair everyone up with a partner, and give you an assigned spot to go to in the classroom to work together through our fluency practice. What do you think? We are going to have to read the passage to find out what this purple creature is exactly.Ĥ. Nasty? Do dogs normally look nasty? Hmmm, I wonder if this purple animal really is a dog. When the dog gets near, the neighbor gets scared and says the dog looks nasty. That is a little unusual isn’t it? Most dogs love to bark. The dog never seems to bark it is very quiet. In this passage, the neighbor has a purple dog that has big green eyes and a very long tail. We are going to practice by reading the passage, My Neighbor’s Dog is Purple by Jack Prelutsky. Say, “Now that we have learned what fluent and non-fluent is and what each of them sounds like when reading, we are going to practice our fluency. This is because I had practiced two times earlier with the same sentence so I was prepared to be familiar with all the words in the sentence before I read it again.”ģ. Did you notice how I read the sentence faster because I was familiar with all the words? The first two times I read the sentence helped me to read faster and more fluently the third time I read it. Listen as I read the sentence fluently this time: The ambulance raced through the traffic. Because I had to go back and reread it to use the crosschecking method, this was not an example of fluent reading. Yes, that is it! Did I just read the way a fluent reader reads?. Wait, abulnc does not make any sense, its suppose to say: The ambulance raced through the traffic. The abuuullll nccc rrraced through the trrraffic. Tell the students, “I am going to read the sentence on the board and I want you to tell me if I read it like a fluent reader or not. Today, we are going to practice fluency by reading a text a couple of times and seeing how we improve as we reread it each time.”Ģ. Each new time you read the text, you get faster and better because you are becoming more familiar with the text. One way we can work on fluency is by reading a text more than once.
You will gradually notice how much easier reading comprehension will come. Once you are fluent readers, the text will begin to make more sense because it will not take as much thinking to figure out what each word means. They automatically recognize words with little or no effort. Fluent readers read fast without stopping to sound out each word. In order to be a successful reader you must be able to read fluently. Say, “Today we are going to work on improving our fluency skills. Rocking-On Growing Independence and Fluency Rubricġ.My Neighbor’s Dog is Purple by Jack Prelutsky The more practice students have with reading, the better their reading skills will improve.
Students will gain fluency through repeated readings, time readings, and one-minute reads.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to read quickly, smoothly, and expressively in order to gain fluency. When you begin to read fluently, you will be able to better understand the meaning of the text rather than spending time decoding words. Fluency refers to a student’s ability to read words accurately and automatically. When working towards becoming a stronger reader, one of our goals is to be more fluent.