1. Materials
Easy button
Paper for snowball pass

3. Fluency Brian Kretschmar Old Mill Elementary

4. Fluency-Agenda What is fluency Why teach fluency Why test fluency
Prerequisite skills
General Principles of Teaching Fluency
Activities to increase fluency
Reflect
Set Goals

5. What is fluency?
Snowball pass-3x

6. What is fluency?
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7. What is fluency?
Accuracy
Rate
Expression

8. Why do students need to be fluent?
Snowball pass-new paper-3x

9. Why do students need to be fluent?
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10. Why do students need to be fluent?
Comprehension
Complete assignments with more ease
Self esteem.
Increased probability that they will like and want to read.

11. Why do we test for fluency?
Know students’ current levels of performance.
Know which students need intervention.
Know if our interventions are impacting student performance.
Know if students are continuing to make progress.

12. Is this our goal?

13. Prerequisite skills needed to be fluent?
Think-Write-Share
Phonemic awareness-blending
Phonics-sounds: consonants, vowels, digraphs, vowel teams
Phonics-blending/decoding
Sight words

14. General Principles of Teaching Fluency
Practice _____________, ______________!
Students need daily __________ practice.
Provide immediate corrective feedback.
Have students read __________ rather than silently.
Students should practice reading at their __________ level when reading alone.
Students should practice reading at their ___________ level when reading with a peer, para, or teacher.

15. General Principles of Teaching Fluency
Practice _____________, ______________!
Students need daily __________ practice.
Provide immediate corrective feedback.
Have students read __________ rather than silently.
Students should practice reading at their __________ level when reading alone.
Students should practice reading at their ___________ level when reading with a peer, para, or teacher.
practice
practice
guided
orally
independent
instructional

17. Activities to increase fluency?
Daily oral PA practice of continuous blending (with signals)?
Daily oral continuous blending (with signals)
Test and teach (sounds, decoding, sight words)
Sight word phrases
Daily guided practice
Graph student progress
Home reading expectation (especially with a series)
Readers Theater

18. Activities to increase fluency?
Daily oral PA practice of continuous blending (with signals)
Daily oral continuous blending (with signals)
Test and teach (sounds, decoding, sight words)
___________________
Daily guided practice
Graph student progress
Home reading expectation (especially with a series)
Readers Theater

19. Activities to increase fluency?
Daily oral PA practice of continuous blending (with signals)
Daily oral continuous blending (with signals)
sat rat mat fat
net let met set
top hop cop pop

20. Sounds and Sight Words Necklace Exit tickets
Flashcards (say, spell, trace, say)
________________
Memory Game
Excel Precision Teaching Document
Computer games
Word of the day
Word bank/journal
Sight word stories

21. Sounds and Sight Words Necklace Exit tickets
Flashcards (say, spell, trace, say)
Speed check
Memory Game
Excel Precision Teaching Document
Computer games
Word walls
Word of the day
Word bank/journal
Sight word stories

25. Daily guided practice Model (accuracy, expression, and rate)
Length of text should be words.
Students can reread the same text up to 4 times.
Give ______________ corrective feedback.
Teacher Prompts: We must train students to look at the text!
“Say the sounds and blend them together”
“My turn. The word is _____. What word?_______. Go back.”
“Read what’s on the page.”
Cover illustrations, students point to words, use bookmark

26. Daily guided practice Partner reading (must teach)
Support for lowest readers:
Better reader reads material first, lower reader rereads
Place in a triad
Students read material together
Graph progress
Set targets
Fluent Reflections
Post fluency posters
Post fix up strategies

27. Daily guided practice Partner reading (must teach)
Support for lowest readers:
Better reader reads material first, lower reader rereads
Place in a triad
Students read material together
__________________
Fluent Reflections
Post fluency posters
Post fix up strategies

28. Repeated Oral Reading-Whole Grp/Small Group
Echo reading
Cloze reading
Choral reading
Crescendo choral reading

29. Repeated Oral Reading-Whole Grp/Small Group
Echo reading
_______ reading
Choral reading
Crescendo choral reading

30. Echo reading, Cloze reading, Choral reading, Crescendo choral reading
The largest airplane ever built flew only one time. Many people know this airplane as the Spruce Goose. Howard Hughes and his staff built this airplane in the 1940s. They built it to carry soldiers and supplies to Europe during World War II.

31. Curriculum designed to increase fluency?
Great Leaps
Read Naturally
Six Minute Solution
Reading A-Z Fluency Passages

32. Curriculum designed to increase fluency?
Great Leaps
Read Naturally
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Reading A-Z Fluency Passages

33. Helpful Supplies Text / books Bookmarks Whisper phones / PVC phones
One minute timers
Sheet protectors
Dry erase markers
Other?

34. Reflect on your current Fluency instruction
Fluency Fidelity Checklist
Set a fluency goal for next year. What do you want to implement?
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35. Fluency-Agenda What is fluency Why teach fluency Why test fluency
Prerequisite skills
General Principles of Teaching Fluency
Activities to increase fluency
Reflect
Set Goals

36. Handouts- (include in resources and then email to participants)
Sight Word Test
Fluent Reflections
Fluency Fidelity Checklist (print out)
Automatic Words Record Graph
Print out power point
excel doc
Presenter feed back???