Topic: Fluency with Text
This toolkit helps teachers and families understand what fluency is and how to support a child’s development of fluency with text.
Fluency is the ability to read words, phrases, sentences, and stories accurately, with enough speed, and expression. It is important to remember that fluency is not an end in itself but a critical gateway to comprehension.
IES Foundational Skills Recommendation Series
Jeanne Wanzek, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and Carol Dissen, Expert Literacy Coach at the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon, present on Recommendation 3: Teach students to decode words, analyze word parts, and write and recognize words, from the Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade: Practice Guide (WWC).
Repeated readings, goal setting, corrective feedback, and graphing performance can help build Fluency with Text.
This Educator’s Toolbox, developed in Partnership with The Reading League Journal, provides practical ways to incorporate fluency instruction within your classroom.
Fluency with Text Resources
This resource on fluency and comprehension is part of a series of instructional briefs designed to help families, afterschool providers, and other caregivers support their children's early reading instruction while learning at home or in a hybrid learning environment.
Topic: Comprehension, Fluency with Text
This webpage contains videos illustrating fluent reading in Grades K-5.
Topic: Fluency with Text
Learn about the research-based strategies to improve reading skills in this IRIS Module on RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction.
Topic: Comprehension, Fluency with Text, Phonemic Awareness
The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2024 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://www.improvingliteracy.org