Lesson Plans and Worksheets
Lesson Planet has helped me alot with ideas for my transitional and resource class rooms. It helps me design interesting and fun lessons that keep the students interested and allow me to teach at the same time!
- Philadelphia, PA
- 10-02-12
Reading Fluency Teacher Resources
Find teacher approved Reading Fluency educational resource ideas and activities
Utilizing a video camera, learners will read a story while being recorded. Later, they analyze the footage. After identifying their strengths and weaknesses with the teacher, they discuss reading fluency techniques. Adaptation: Instead of working with the teacher, pair-up, provide constructive criticism guidelines, and have peers provide feedback.
Motivate your class with this lesson! Learners use passages from Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to practice reading fluency. They read "The Raven" as a rap song to better understand the rhyming patterns and pauses.
Nothing helps you identify your reading fluency like hearing yourself read aloud! Increase reading fluency and expression by having young learners podcast a weekly high interest piece of literature. Assign a different star or featured reader each week. Set goals and see your learners accomplish them!
A review of decoding words is incorporated in a discussion on reading with expression in order to increase fluency. The teacher gives several book options for readers to practice smooth and inflected reading, giving a short book talk on each to pique interest, and also reviewing strategies for selecting a book at an appropriate reading level. Readers find quiet places throughout the room to read a book three times, and then the teacher has them read for one minute as an assessment.
Readers work to increase their reading fluency through repeated timed readings. They learn to read with more excitement and enthusiasm in their voices, making a more pleasurable experience for their listeners.
Explain to your readers a variety of decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. They observe the teacher modeling blending, then in pairs take turns reading the book Clifford the Big Red Dog. Learners then time each other reading and record their reading rates on a graph. Work on speed and accuracy with your young ones.
Emerging readers practice reading fluency. First, they listen to the teacher and classmates model fluent reading, and then they practice fluent oral reading with a partner. To close the day, they participate in a Reader's Theatre based on "Rude Giants."
Students read sentences practicing the cross checking strategies. They practice reading fluency by reading aloud with a partner. They time themselves and count the number of words read in a minute. They track their progress on a wall chart.
Second graders participate in a literacy block of lessons that focus on decoding unfamiliar words, retelling a story using sequencing, and reading phrases to increase reading fluency. Working with at partner, 2nd graders read and reread a passage before discussing it genre and decoding words. They work on sequencing activities using "The Mitten."
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity is called "letter soup," and it requires learners to unscramble the list of vocabulary words. To really build comprehension, learners write sentences using each vocabulary word. Finally, the teacher assesses each learner's verbal and reading fluency.