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Reading Remedies |
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Fluency Activities |
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Reading with fluency means, reading as if you are talking, chunking words that are units of meaning together, reading with expression, and pausing at appropriate places such as periods and commas.
To increase fluency, it's important to read and reread text. Repeated reading leads to improved fluency.
Students can record their voices into a tape recorder or computer and listen to themselves reading to try to read more fluently.
Reader's theater is an engaging and painless way to get students to reread text aloud and work on reading with expression.
Teach students to "chunk" words of meaning together as they read. A sentence such as "Tom went to the movies with his father on Friday" should be read with no breaks between phrases like "Tom went to the movies with his father" on Friday" where the red words are read together and the blue words are read together. Sentences can be broken up in different ways. However, they should be broken up in ways that make sense in terms of meaning. You may wish to draw loops under sentence parts that should be read together.