Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...

Young scholars work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading has on their speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to...

Students use a crosscheck strategy to improve their oral reading rate and fluency. They are timed reading "Bud the Sub" orally three times, and work to improve their time and expression each time through. Students encourage each other...

Students explain what it means to be a fluent reader and why it is an important part of learning to read. They become aware that fluency is a reader's ability to read words quickly, smoothly, and with emotions. Students pass out books...

Young scholars increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...

Students focus on improving their reading fluency. They discuss what it means to be a fluent reader and practice repeated readings with a short story. They work in partners and take turns timing one another for one minute reads.

Students explore the five main components to reading fluency: faster reading, smoother reading, expressive reading, silent reading and voluntary reading. This lesson is designed to help children use expression as they read. Improvement...

Young scholars participate in reader's theatre. In this compare and contrast instructional activity, students read the book The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. This instructional activity promotes fluency and expression. Young...

Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the reading of the story while focusing upon the development of vocabulary and reading fluency. They practice reading while running their finger underneath the text to follow along with...

Young elementary learners develop expression while reading. They listen as the teacher demonstrates expression when reading aloud. Individual learners read with a partner and practice using expression in their reading. When their partner...

Why should we read with expression when we read? Engage your learners in this discussion and teach them the easiest way to gauge expression: the end mark! Is it a question mark? An exclamation point? This helps you determine how to...

What does it mean to read expressively? Beginning readers hear examples of expressive reading and partner up to practice. One partner reads The Littlest Pumpkin and the other partner reads Franklin and his Friend. While...

Penny, Polly, and Peter are planning a picnic but end up pigging out instead in this fun printable book. Including dozens of p-words and amusing illustrations, this is a great resource for teaching emergent readers about the sound...

First graders use portable media players to improve their reading fluency. In this reading fluency lesson plan, 1st graders use a media player to read and record passages throughout the year to improve their reading fluency.

Students participate in various activities using the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. In this reading fluency activity, students read the story and then practice comprehension, fluency, and writing. An estimation...

Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...

Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...

Here is a wonderful instructional activity designed for learners with special needs. This well-thought-out instructional activity uses Big Books, familiar stories, and has a lot of review learning built into it. The book, The Keeping...

Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books,...

Students practice reading different materials to increase their fluency. Individually, they are given a race car and they move their car forward depending how well they have read different excerpts. To end the lesson, they take time...

First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. For this language arts lesson, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the meaning of the...

Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as they...

Students explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. For this irregular word lesson, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Students shuffle the flash...

Practice reading because practice makes perfect! In this sentence building lesson, young readers play the game Memory using word cards. They play in small groups to match words and use the words correctly in a sentence. This lesson...