Fluency Bulletin Lessons & Bulletin Board

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After years of fluency blunders, these are the tips I have found create the greatest success in fluency instruction.

• Start fluency at the sound, word, and phrase level. You don’t need to only practice building fluency with long passages.

• Accuracy before fluency! There is no benefit to working on fluency if the student is not first accurate with the text. Fluency is often the most beneficial when at a student’s independent reading level and 95% accurate.

• Rereading a text is useful, but only when constructive feedback is given by a fluent, accurate reader. Practicing mistakes doesn’t help!

• Each rereading should focus on a different component of fluency (accuracy, rate, phrasing and punctuation, and expression).

• Explicitly teach kids that faster is not always better! Racecar reading is not the goal. We should not read aloud faster than normal conversation pace.

• The end goal is always comprehension! Fluent reading frees up the student’s mental desk space to comprehend. Speed is not as important as making space for comprehension to naturally occur.

The following lessons, anchor charts, student note catchers, and bulletin board can be used to teach kids the purpose of fluency practice.