Fluency

Our big reading skill this week was fluency. You can see our talking points on the screen that we developed before our learning started this week. Our focus is "taking short pauses at punctuation marks". Students practice their oral reading fluency on several reading texts. At the end of the week, we worked on reader's theater selections. Students had two options to choose from.

Students are encouraged to read at least once a week, for their monthly reading calendar minutes, out loud and practice their oral reading fluency.

Oral reading fluency can help develop comprehension. When you read out loud and slow, speed up, and vary your text to match what you are reading, or you hear when the text doesn't make sense, and you go back and reread, you are "polishing up" and developing your comprehension of what you read.

We practice our fluency every third week of our learning units.