Teaching Reading Fluency to Struggling Readers

1. Fluency- Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI) is an instructional fluency model that, like the FDL incorporates repeated and assisted (partner) reading.

1.1. Readers Theatre

1.2. Singing as Reading

2. One minute fluency measures reliably identify students who are at risk for reading difficulty.

2.1. Accuracy Rate Prosody

3. Instructing Fluency and Endurance

3.1. Increase Automaticity

3.1.1. Decrease Readability Levels

3.1.1.1. Read Interesting Texts

3.1.1.1.1. Increase Reading Volume

4. On the surface some students can appear to be great readers, but lack reading fluency.

4.1. Jay Samuels work has shown us that direct instruction to teach reading fluency is important. If a child practices, they will get better over time.

4.1.1. Students need fluent reading to be modeled for them by they parents and teachers to develop an internalized model of fluent reading.

4.1.1.1. To help, teachers need to: engage in assisted reading, collect fluency materials and provide performance and celebration.

5. Fluency Development Lesson (FDL)- a direct fluency instruction for use with students experiencing difficulties in fluency and learning to read.

6. Fast Start is an adaptation of the FDL and is intended for use by parents at home with their beginning readers.