What is fluency?
Fluency is the ability to read well and sound confident when you read. Practicing with fluency passages is an import an part of helping your child improve their ability to read fluently. If your child makes many errors while racing or the racing does not sound like a spoken conversation, he or she needs to practice reading fluently. Early readers spend a great deal of metal energy sounding out (decoding) the words on the page. Their reading often times sounds like a robot - this is no fluent. As a child learns to the phonetic rules and can apply them with ease along with having automatic recall of all sight words, reading begins to sound more like fluent reading should.
By fourth grade children should be reading a minimum of 93 w.p.m. (words per minute) as the beginning of the year. Students progress to a racing rate of 105 w.p.m by mid-year. As the fourth grade year comes to a close, your child should be reading at least 118 w.p.m. Students considered to be challenge readers should set a goal of reading at least 150 w.p.m
How can you help? You will need to print our 2 copies of the passage (one for the child and one for the parent). Set a timer for 1 minute. Mark through any words read incorrectly or skipped (no helping the child). Place a bracket around the last word read within the one minute. Now count how many words they read and subtract the incorrect ones and/or skipped words. This final number is the magic number of how many words they can read a minute.
PS: Your child should not pre-read the passage.
By fourth grade children should be reading a minimum of 93 w.p.m. (words per minute) as the beginning of the year. Students progress to a racing rate of 105 w.p.m by mid-year. As the fourth grade year comes to a close, your child should be reading at least 118 w.p.m. Students considered to be challenge readers should set a goal of reading at least 150 w.p.m
How can you help? You will need to print our 2 copies of the passage (one for the child and one for the parent). Set a timer for 1 minute. Mark through any words read incorrectly or skipped (no helping the child). Place a bracket around the last word read within the one minute. Now count how many words they read and subtract the incorrect ones and/or skipped words. This final number is the magic number of how many words they can read a minute.
PS: Your child should not pre-read the passage.
Practice Passages by Difficulty Level
Easy - Beginning of Year
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Average - Middle of Year
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Advanced - End of Year
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