Stephanie

Alicia

Shantel

Use readers’ theatre as a culmination of several fluency activities in which students act out a story. Adapt a story the students have read, create your own text, or create a story with your students to use for the readers’ theatre. Assign student parts/characters in the story and allow students to practice their lines until they can be read fluently with proper intonation and phrasing. When all students have met their fluency goal of reading their character’s part properly, the class can perform their play for an audience. The audience can be parents, school administrators, other classes, etc.

Give students the opportunity to read with an older student once a week and practice a passage. The reading buddies can be “trained” on how to give feedback and help the younger student in a positive manner. The older student can also read to the younger student and ask questions about what they read.

(F- Stands for Fluency)

Involves you reading one line of a poem or story and your child repeating the same line after you have read. Increase the number of lines read at one time as the child's reading improves. Ask your child to follow the story with their finger to be sure he/she is looking at the words. Let your child read first with easy materials. You may also put the words that they are struggling with on cards with pictures and play a matching game with them.