Fluency – More Ideas

I’m continuing with some suggestions to help my friend’s child with fluency. I really like the ReadWriteThink site for reading ideas. Here are some more:

Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance – Lesson Plan for Grades K-2; “Bill Martin, Jr's picture books are known for their creative use of language. In this lesson, the repetition, rhythm, and rhyme of Martin's works provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled before participating in the readings through literary performance. By inviting students to participate in the shared and choral reading, the lesson provides students the chance to focus their fluency and comprehension. The readers theater section of the lesson allows students to demonstrate for an audience, while improving their literacy skills further.”

Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency – Lesson plan for grades 3-5; “Poetry can be a fun and unintimidating way for ESL students to develop their oral fluency. In this lesson, students discuss what they know about poetry and then work in small groups to develop a choral reading of two poems about an assigned insect. The poems serve as an introduction to a research investigation (via the Internet) about the insect. Students use a worksheet to compile factual information about the insect and present the information, along with their choral poetry readings to the class.”

Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation – Strategy guide for grades K-6; “In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers.  Likewise, this strategy can be used to pair older students with younger students to create “reading buddies.”  Additionally, children who read at the same level can be paired to reread a text that they have already read, for continued understanding and fluency work.  This research-based strategy can be used with any book or text in a variety of content areas, and can be implemented in a variety of ways.”

Using Story Innovation to Teach Fluency, Vocabulary, and Structure – Lesson plan for Grades 3-6; “This lesson gives students an opportunity to practice comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency and to explore story elements in a fun and unique way through a strategy called story innovation. Story innovation takes a text and allows the students to change characters, setting, and story elements to make a personalized version of the story. The story is then read aloud to reinforce the student's fluency skills with a now-familiar text. The students then compare and contrast their story to the original. The story innovation strategy allows for many different adaptations for subject and grade. Pick your favorite story, and have your students adapt it in any way that you choose.”

Do you have any other resources for teaching fluency? Please share.