An overview of some activities that can be remixed to allow students to practice this skill in a digital format.

Fluency

My Aunt May used to live in Norway, which is a country in Europe. Every day she would take the railway to work, where she was a tailor. A tailor is a person who gets paid to make and design clothes that fit a person exactly. Aunt May's tailor shop was on the main road in a quaint town, across the way from the rail station. People would come from all over to praise Aunt May's clothes. They couldn't wait to see what she would design each day!

Directions:&#160; Students read the passage and record themselves reading aloud

Teacher Tip By listening to the recording, you can notice: • fluency expression - do they use any intonation in their voice? • fluency accuracy - are they reading the words correctly? • fluency rate - are they reading an appropriate pace? • fluency smoothness - are they able to blend words or are they still choppy in their decoding?

It is important to understand the definition of each pillar to ensure that it is embedded into your daily instruction.

Fluency is the ability to read text quickly and accurately based on the reader’s understanding and ability to decode words. Fluent readers must also have a stored bank of non-decodable words that they are able to read so that they can focus attention on the content and meaning of what they are reading.

Directions: &#160;Students practice reading decodable texts

I am a cat. I can sit on a mat. I see a dog that can dig.

Directions: &#160;Students rate their reading after listening to their recording

I read okay, but sometimes was too fast or too slow.

The National Reading Panel identified 5 critical components, or pillars, that must be mastered in order to become fluent in literacy.

Effective literacy instruction draws not only on these five pillars but also must be accessible and motivating to students. Book Creator is the perfect tool to empower and engage students with activities designed to develop these five competencies.

Record each sentence with expression based on the emoji

Teacher Tip: &#160;Expression is dependent on the mood of the text, punctuation, and cadence when reading aloud.

Record student assessment / progress on skills

Teacher Tip: &#160;Literacy is not just for ELA and crucial components such as fluency should be taught and used in ALL content areas!

Upload a PDF of progress monitoring to support assessment results and students record themselves reading. 

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The Science of Reading is the researched best-practices in explicitly teaching students how to read and write. This template gives some examples that can be created using Book Creator that align to the National Reading Panel's 5 Pillars of Effective Reading Instruction.

Our 5 Pillars series includes a book for each of the pillars, in which we share examples of ways that digital book creation can support each foundational skill. Through the use of multimedia, student tasks become living documents, and not just one-and-done activities. While these books are designed to provide ideas and examples, if you would like to make use of one of the examples in your classroom, Remix this book.

Directions: &#160;Students practice reading aloud the nonsense word chunks and blends. Instead of a teacher recording, a student could record themselves also

ja v ji d je x jo z ju p

fi d fa j fe b fu m fo z

me d mo z mi l ma g mu x

ho x hu z he b hi n ha p

Record yourself reading the vowel team words below

Teacher Tip: &#160;Recording students' reading aloud intrinsically motivates them to re-read or practice more than just reading aloud to self

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The following pages contain exercises and page templates relating to Fluency for you to use with your students.

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