Fluency AssessmentSeptember 13, 2011

Today’s Class

• Review Fluency• Explore Fluency Assessment Tools• Practice using Fluency Assessment

Tools

National Reading Panel

• NRP was formed in 1997 to research and assess effective literacy instructional practices

• Research was conducted over a period of 2 years

• In 2000, the NRP published a report outlining the findings

NRP Findings

Concluded that there are five key components to an effective reading instruction program:

• Phonemic Awareness• Phonics• Fluency• Vocabulary• Comprehension

What are we talking about when we talk about fluency?

ILS, Language Arts Goal #1: Read with understanding and fluency.

Standard 1.B: Read age-appropriate material aloud with fluency and accuracy

Common Core Standards

Fluency: Reading text with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.What does it look like? What does it sound like? What can be done

in the classroom to support fluent oral reading?

Fluency

•What does this mean? What are we looking for? How will we know students can do this?

Elements of Fluent Reading

• Automaticity of decoding• Appropriate reading rate• Appropriate volume, pitch, stress, juncture or

stress in one’s voice• Appropriate phrasing

Fluency

• Accuracy• Rate• Volume• Expression• Prosody (appropriate stress and intonation of

language)

(National Reading Panel Report, 2000)

Assessing Oral Language• Tools we have for assessing fluency and reading

rate:– Oral reading rubric– Multidimensional Fluency Scale

Choose one of the methods and practice using it as we listen to Evan reading. (Video is posted on the Wiki. You can also use any of the other recordings as well). Or…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0-aMLx6E0 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChENpc87AA or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIytn4NYPj4

Oral Reading Rate

Let’s try it for Evan (See pkt page for instructions)

1. Words in the passage= 2502. 250x60= 150003. Time the reading (150 seconds)4. 15000/150= 1005. Use the table (for “C(orrect)WPM, subtract

the number of miscues=12, from #4) So 88

Behaviors that Negatively Impact Fluency

Strategies for Developing Fluency

• Model Fluent Reading (Read-aloud)• Shared Reading• Repeated Readings• Work with High Frequency Words to

develop AutomatcityStrategy Ideas:• Improving Reading• Busy Teacher Caféhttp://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/fluency.html

In the Classroom• Read Aloud• Audio Recordings and Videos• Shared Reading• Repeated Readings• Using Books with Repetitive Text• Reader’s Theater• Choral Reading• Echo Reading• Work with High Frequency Words (develop

automaticity)• Work with High Frequency Phrases

Next Class

• Thursday, September 15 (I sure hope I will be there or I may have to postpone the start of tutoring)

• Bring a blank of the lesson plan template• Familiarize yourself with Interest Inventories

and lesson ideas for the first few sessions• Bring your Improving Reading book