EDUC 551 Developing Reading Fluency

1. Developing reading fluency
Emmanuel Rivera González
S00525393
Educ 551
Prof. Dulcinea Nuñez, Ph. D.
UNIVERSITY OF TURABO
School of Education
Graduate program
Gurabo, Puerto Rico

2. Agenda
 Reflection
 Fluency as a concept
 What impedes fluency?
 What can be done to improve
fluency?
 Repeating reading as strategy
 One on one aproches
 Strategys for small groups
 Strategys for the whole class
 Video example
 Conclusion
 References

4. Fluency
 What is fluency?
• Read text quickly and
accurately
• provides a bridge
between word
recognition and
comprehension
 Why is it important?
• Comprehension
• Volume
• Reading rate - volume -
academic achievement

5. What impedes fluency?
Round-Robin
reading
Over empahsis
on phonics

6. What can be done to improve
fluency? independent reading
 teacher read-aloud
 Experience with books
 repeated reading
 daily writing
 Specific strategies

7. Repeated reading strategy
Use to develop fluency
Strengthen pathways
Like practicing scales on music
Faster letter, sight, sound association

8. Repeated Reading strategy
 How it works?
 Students work with a buddy
 One person reads as many words as possible in
one minute or 30 seconds
 Other person keeps track

9. Repeated Reading strategy
 Why should you do it?
• A body of research to support it
• Students can see progress
• It works - develop fluency
• Adopt and Adapt
• Other strategies to develop reading fluency are coming up next

10. One on one aprroaches
 Re-read to meet standard
 Find a piece of reading at a particular grade level
 Set a goal for time
 Students re-read until they meet the standard

11. One on one approaches
Time chart
• read passage out loud
• time with stop watch and record
• repeat twice or more
• record time in a portfolio

12. One on one approaches
Older peer tutor
• Older students with youngers to help
''tutor''
• Older kids develop fluency

13. Strategies for small groups
Choral reading for fluency
• Have students read together
• Segment the story

14. Strategies for small groups
Echo reading
• The developing of word sight ability to
put them together
• Stimulates reading fluency

15. Reader's theater
Give them the story
students create the script out of this
They can also create: the narrator,
characters, sound effects

16. Whole class activities
Repeated reading
• Whole class or small groups
• To develop fluency
• One minute or 30 seconds

17. Basal Enhancer
Teacher discusses the story
Story is echo read
Partner read
Reader's theater

18. VIDEO EXAMPLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogi7ANK49wk

19. Conclusion
 In resume, as long your
student has strong enough
decoding skills, the next steps
are:
1. Help build a strong
vocabulary
2. Provide a good role model
3. Use phrasing to break
sentences into meaningful
chunks
4. Tap into character dialogue to
encourage expression
5. Have your student record
himself reading
6. Keep encouraging your
student

20. References
 Chase, M. (2013, January 6). Reading fluency. Retrieved September 17,
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basics/fluency
 Cicerchia, M. (2017, September 3). Reading fluency strategies. Retrieved
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strategies-for-struggling-readers
 Genie, R. (2011, August 11). Developing reading fluency. Retrieved
September 17, 2018, from
http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/fluency.html
 Jones, M. (2017, March 1). 5 dr. seuss qutes about reading. Retrieved
September 17, 2018, from https://www.imagineforest.com/blog/dr-seuss-
quotes-reading/
 Rasplicca, C. (2013, October 25). Oral reading Fluency. Retrieved
September 17, 2018, from https://council-for-learning-
disabilities.org/what-is-oral-reading-fluency-verbal-reading-proficiency
 Rippel, M. (2016, September 18). How to develop reading fluency.
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