Fluency: Differentiated Interventions and Progress-Monitoring Assessments / Edition 4

by Jerry Johns, Roberta L. Berglund

Overview

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780757593611
Publisher:	Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/29/2011
Edition description:	4
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

A Quick Orientation to Fluency

About 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 Identification

Shared Reading Shared Book Experience

Echo Reading

Choral Reading

Antiphonal Reading

Super Signals

Phrase Boundaries

Fluency Development Lesson

Assisted 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 Karaoke

Performance Reading Say It Like the Character

Guess the Emotion

Just Joking

Readers Theater

Performance Poetry

Independent Reading

Read and Relax

Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)

Integrated Strategies Oral Recitation Lesson

Book Bits

Radio Reading

Part 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

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Grade 3 Student Copy

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Grade 4 Student Copy

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Grade 5 Student Copy

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Grade 6 Student Copy

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Grade 7 Student Copy

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Grade 8 Student Copy

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Form I: Informational Grade 1 Student Copy

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Grade 2 Student Copy

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Grade 3 Student Copy

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Grade 4 Student Copy

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Grade 5 Student Copy

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Grade 6 Student Copy

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Grade 7 Student Copy

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Grade 8 Student Copy

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Resources 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