Pinterest Pick 3: Back to School Edition

Welcome to this month's Pick 3 Party!  Thanks for stopping by!  If you are looking for some inspiration for your classroom this month, you have come to the right place!

Improving Student Fluency in your Classroom

As students move through the primary grades, they should move from learning to read to reading to learn.  Students who struggle with fluency have difficulty reading to learn because they simply aren't fluent readers yet.  Fluency is not the only characteristic of a successful reader but the research is plentiful showing its importance.  Students who can read fluently are able to focus their cognitive efforts on comprehending and interacting with the text.  Are you looking for easy ways to improve fluency levels in your class?  Check out these tips....

Assessing Reading Fluency to Boost Fluency Growth

In order to accurately assess a student's fluency and guide his or her development, a teacher needs to look at all the components of fluency.  In the simplest of terms, fluency can be divided into three critical components: accuracy, rate, and prosody (expression and smoothness).

What is Reading Fluency?

What is reading fluency?

Even people not familiar with the elements that make up fluent reading, know a fluent reader when they hear one.  They read smoothly with proper intonation.  A fluent reader is easy to listen to and understand because it simply sounds like they are telling you a story.

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Welcome to this month's Pick 3 Party!  Thanks for stopping by!  If you are looking for some inspiration for your classroom this month, you have come to the right place!