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Term: Fall | Issue 3 | Date: September 30,2019

COM ING UP... FLUENCY ACTIVITIES FOR HOM E

- Model proper reading wit h expression t o your child: Read your
This week we are learning about
child's favorite book out loud to him or her and model appropriate
Fluency, which is the ability to read
expression and fluency.
written content promptly, correctly, and
- Have your child act out lines from his or her favorit e book: Have
with appropriate expression. Fluency your child use different voices and expressions to bring the text to
links word recognition and live in his or her favorite book.
comprehension together. - One-minut e readings- Take a stopwatch and see how many words
your child can read in a minute from his or her favorite book. Try this
Fluency involves automaticity and
many times and every time have your child try and beat his or her
prosody.
fastest time. Have your child graph these times to see his or her
Automaticity is the rate and accuracy improvement.
you read at. Prosody is the expression
and appropriate phrasing . Fluency
instruction involves Partner Reading, (a
TECH RESOURCES
good reader paired with a struggling
- http://www.bainbridgeclass.com/readinggames.htm
reader) and Readers' Theater (children - http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/booksonline.html
act out the lines from a book). - https://www.readingresource.net/websitesforkids.html
- https://pbskids.org/peg/games/big-dog-problem
- https://pbskids.org/daniel/stories/something-special-for-dad/
Here, is a video demonstrating Readers'
Theater.

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