Improving Reading Fluency

2nd -  5^th Grade Reading Fluency—Where are your student when it comes to reading fluency? Students should be at reading 95% accuracy to be considered accurate. (To figure accuracy, take the number of words read in a passage correctly and divide by total words read. 61 words read correctly with 5 missed words, total of 66 words read for 92%. Close but not accurate.) The overall goal is for the students to be at benchmark and accurate. Below is a chart for you to place your students names on the charts and you will be able to design the lessons your students need to meet that goal.

Intensive Not Accurate	Intensive Accurate	Strategic Not Accurate	Strategic Accurate	Benchmark Not Accurate
By 2nd grade these students need to have a support file. These students need to have the areas identified of need by a diagnostic test. This way you will know what skills to focus your instruction.	These students show that they have most of their phonics skills. Multisyllabic words may be holding them back. They have a great chance of moving up with practice.	These students have some phonics holes. They need to have the phonics diagnostic screener competed and 5 minute object lessons to fill those holes.	These students have the best chance of making benchmark. They need practice. A lot of time using multisyllabic. Might consider short object lessons with multisyllabic words.	These students have some phonics skills that are holding them back from decoding words when they read. They will have a hard time holding on to their benchmark status. Same instruction as pervious group.