Reading Fluency
Camille L. Z. Blachowicz
High-Beginning to Low-Intermediate
• Students learn to read smoothly, accurately, and expressively
• Repeated readings improve vocabulary and comprehension
• Immediate feedback and self-assessment improve oral reading skills
• Seventy-two high level interest fiction and non-fiction narrative passages
for repeated oral reading
• Seven readability levels to match students’ independent readings levels
• Extensive teacher notes with research background and classroom-tested
ideas
Students work in pairs, and at comfortable reading levels, practice reading
aloud smoothly, accurately, and expressively. One student reads aloud a narrative
fiction or nonfiction passage from the nonconsumable Reader. A partner uses
the consumable Reader’s Record, marking errors and scoring the oral reading.
Repeated readings encourage students to increase their fluency.
Teacher Notes include
• Research background on the importance of fluent reading
• Techniques for using the materials
• Ideas for using the materials for placement and assessment
• Other ways to develop oral fluency
• Research references
READING FLUENCY
Reader A
Reader’s Record A
Reader B
Reader’s Record B
Reader A
Reader’s Record A
Reader C
Reader’s Record C
Reader D
Reader’s Record D
Reader E
Reader’s Record E
Reader F
Reader’s Record F
Reader G
Reader’s Record G
Reader H
Reader’s Record H
Reader I
Reader’s Record I
Reader J
Reader’s Record J
Teacher’s Notes
