Fluency: Differentiated Interventions and Progress-Monitoring Assessments

Teachers can easily include fluency strategies in their instructional repertoire without adding hours of preparation time.The new edition of this compact, focused book provides over 30 ready-to-use strategies to help teachers, reading specialists, and other school professionals understand and strengthen fluency instruction for student in regular classrooms, resource rooms, and RTI programs. You'll get specific strategies targeted to six reader types so interventions can be more beneficial to small groups or individual students within RTI programs. Assessments are also included for monitoring students' progress in grades one through eight, along with common questions and answers teachers may have about fluency. Ready-to-use worksheets with permission to reproduce for classroom use. A quick reference chart to show how the strategies can be differentiated for six types of readers. Strategies organized for easy use with goals, materials needed, reader type, description, step-by-step procedure, and evaluation. Co-published with the International Reading Association

Table of Contents:
A Quick Orientation to FluencyAbout the Authors Part 1: Questions and Answers about Fluency Overview & Anticipation Guide 1. What Is Fluency? 2. Why Is Fluency Important? 3. Does Fluency Apply to Silent Reading? 4. How Is Rate of Reading Determined? 5. What Oral Reading Rates Are Provided by Research? 6. How Should the Norms for Oral Reading be Used? 7. What Are Some Ways to Assess Fluency? 8. What's Wrong with Round-Robin Oral Reading? 9. What Part of the Reading Program Should Be Devoted to Fluency Instruction? 10. What Insights Can Be Drawn from Research and Expert Opinion? 11. What Factors Can Impact Fluency? 12. When Should Fluency Instruction Begin? 13. What Are the Basic Principles of Fluency Instruction? 14. What Is the Purpose of Fluency Instruction?Part 2: Evidence-Based Strategies, Activities, and Resources Differentiated by Reader Type Foundational Principles and Differentiating Fluency Interventions Building Blocks for Fluency Teacher Read Alouds Language Experience Phonemic Awareness Basic Sight Vocabulary Word IdentificationShared Reading Shared Book Experience Echo Reading Choral Reading Antiphonal Reading Super Signals Phrase Boundaries Fluency Development LessonAssisted Reading Paired Reading Neurological Impress Preview-Pause-Prompt-Praise Structured Repeated Reading Simplified Repeated Reading Student Self-Managed Repeated Reading Tape, Check, Chart Reading While Listening Klassroom KaraokePerformance Reading Say It Like the Character Guess the Emotion Just Joking Readers Theater Performance PoetryIndependent Reading Read and Relax Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)Integrated Strategies Oral Recitation Lesson Book Bits Radio ReadingPart 3: Passages and Resources for Fluency Checks Overview Passages for Progress Monitoring Form N: Narrative Grade 1 Student Copy Teacher Copies Grade 2 Student Copy Teacher Copies Grade 3 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 4 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 5 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 6 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 7 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 8 Student Copy  Teacher CopiesForm I: Informational Grade 1 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 2 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 3 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 4 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 5 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 6 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 7 Student Copy  Teacher Copies Grade 8 Student Copy      Teacher CopiesResources for Fluency Checks Four-Point Fluency Rubric Four-Point Fluency Rubric for Oral Reading Holistic Oral Reading Fluency Scale Class Fluency Record -- Primary Grades Class Fluency Record -- Upper Grades Cumulative Record for Fluency Checks Class Record of Fluency Progress Monitoring Appendix Answers to Anticipation Guide for Fluency References Index