Fluency Phrases for Second and Third Grade Fluency at Chief Shikellamy Title I Parent Night Presented by Chief Title I teachers: Mrs. Maye, Mrs. Slaton, Mrs. Yerg Information take from Source: Rasinski, Timothy V. (2003). The Fluent Reader. New York: Scholastic Professional Books. %20Phrases%20and%20Short%20Sentences.pdf

Why Practice Phrases?  These phrases contain the first 100 words from the Fry Instant Word List (1980), which represent 50 percent of all the words children encounter in elementary school reading.  Repeated reading of these phrases helps your child practice reading high-frequency words and developing fluency and general proficiency.  Reading these phrases should not take the place of reading real books! Please continue to read and have your child read every night!

What is fluent reading? As you read these phrases, remember, fluent reading is not reading as fast as you can! Fluent reading is: Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking. Readers who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is choppy. Taken from Rockets.org

Think about a race car!  If a race car goes too slow, it will lose the race.  If a race car goes too fast, it will crash!  But if a race car goes at a good speed, it will win the race!!

Get ready to read these phrases  Read these phrases in a fluent manner, not to fast and not too slow!  When you are done all the phrases, go back and read them again.  Practice these phrases until they are easy!

Ready… Get set… GO!!

The people

By the water

You and I

He called me.

What did they say?

No way!

One or two?

More than the other.

How many words ?

This is a good day.

Sit down.

But not me.

Not now.

From my room

Will you be good?

Then we will go.

An angry cat

Write your name.

That dog is big.

Two of us

The first word

I like him

Out of the water!

We were here.

Could you go?

We like to write.

Into the water

Look for some people.

So there you are!

A long time

Have you seen it?

One more time.

All day long.

It’s about time!

Up in the air.

Which way?

He has it!

If we were older

It’s no use.

With his mom

As big as the first.

When will we go?

From here to there

More people

Go down.

Did you like it?

When did they go?

She said to go.

Each of us

Now try it again! When these get too easy, visit this website for another group of phrases: ist%20- %20Phrases%20and%20Short%20Sentences.pdf