Effective fluency assessments and interventions are crucial for developing reading skills. Reading effortlessly, where students easily recognize all the words, is essential. Re-reading texts until they can be read fluently helps enhance this skill.
Students also need to do reading that they can read
effortlessly in which they can easily recognize all the words
Extending One Minute measures to
truly measure fluency
Extending the fluency assessment
will give an actual and accurate assessment of reading
Recording results of the enhanced
fluency assessment
Use a fluency assessment record sheet to record your results
Measuring sight word recognition
students must be able to recognize high frequency words
Measuring Comprehension
ask students what they have read about
Measuring Expression
listen for phrasing and expression as students read
Measuring Accuracy
make record of errors made
Fluency is more than speed
According to Caldwell (2009) once you have identified what you're assessing and have collected data and analyzed evidence then you decide what to do according to the analysis.
A simple WCPM measure to assess fluency, does not
asses fluency, they measure speed.
