Department of Education

Resources - Fluency- General

Assessing Reading Fluency	Assessing Reading Fluency is intended to assist practitioners in monitoring students’ fluency development.
Classroom or Home Activities That Build Fluency	Activities are explained in an easy-to-follow, concise manner.
Developing Reading Fluency	Strategies for developing reading fluency using direct and indirect approaches.
Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction	In this PowerPoint presentation, the various components of reading fluency are examined.
Fluency: A Review of Developmental and Remedial Practices	An in-depth review of reading fluency practices including: reading while listening, neurological impress, and cross-age reading.
Help Children Develop Fluent, Reflective Reading	This list of tips provides concrete strategies teachers can use to develop fluent, reflective reading.
Reading Fluency: A Fluent Reader	Fluency is necessary for good comprehension. When a reader is struggling to decode words, little mental energy is left for comprehension.
Improving Oral Reading Fluency (and Comprehension) Through the Creation of Talking Books	In this article Grace Oakley discusses a formative experiment in which 9- and 10-year-old girls created “electronic talking books” in an activity designed to improve oral reading fluency.

Read*Write*Think contains a wealth of reading and writing lessons. It is a collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo.

Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors, Bank Street College of Education provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans, activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources.