What does is mean to be fluent? The more fluent the reading, the easier the brain is processing what is read. Disfluent reading is a quiet signal about the amount of work being required of the reader to manage the text. A child that takes a great deal of time to work through a text is a child that is ready to give up on reading. After all isn't reading about enjoying the process?
Fluency with Text
(Curriculum Based Measurement )
CBM is the method of monitoring student progress through direct, continuous assessment of basic skills. CBM is used to assess reading fluency skills and comprehension. CBM is an approved and standardized assessment practice based on over 25 years of scientific research.
Reading Fluency Rates of Growth
The Edformation Normative Performance Tables are calculated using the AIMSweb Pro student database. Below is the Oral Reading Fluency Normative Performance Chart. It displays the oral reading fluency rates (words read correctly in one minute from Edformation�s Standard Reading Assessment Passages) for grades 1-8. The information is presented by percentile rank and by fall, winter, and spring benchmark periods.
In this chart, first grade students reading at the 50th percentile in the Spring of the school year reads approximately 50 WRC per/minute when reading Edformation's AIMSweb Grade 1 Standard Reading Assessment Passages.
This chart also indicates second grade students reading at the 90th percentile in the Winter of the school year read approximately 126 WRC per/minute when reading Edformation's AIMSweb Grade 2 Standard Reading Assessment Passages.
Finally, this chart displays third grade students reading at the 10th percentile in the Fall of the school year read approximately 28 WRC per/minute when reading Edformation's AIMSweb Grade 3 Standard Reading Assessment Passages.
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Fluency Assessment and Fluency Resources
Reader's Theatre collection of scripts from ECSD
Reader's Theatre scripts from Timeless Teacher Stuff
Whootie Owl Stories to grow by, scripts with lesson plans (stories to grow by)