Read grade-level texts with accuracy, automaticity, and appropriate prosody or expression.
for grade-level norms. Norms are expressed as words correct per minute (WCPM), a measure that combines accuracy with rate.
Appropriate prosody refers to pausing patterns during oral reading that reflect the punctuation and meaning of a text. See
and appropriate in content and qualitative measures.
| Name |
Description |
| Fluency: Pick-A-Part | In this activity, students will quickly identify letter-sounds and word parts in a card game. |
| Fluency: Syllable Speed Practice | In this activity, students will quickly read syllables (sorted by syllable types) in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Syllable Sprint | In this activity, students will quickly read syllables containing varied spelling patterns in a timed activity. NOTE: Additional syllable cards are available in CPALMS' resource . |
| Fluency: Word Part Race | In this activity, students will quickly read word parts by using a race car slide. |
| Fluency: Letter-Sound Mix-Up | In this activity, students will identify the sounds of letters in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Listen To Me | In this activity, students will read and record passages. They will then self-evaluate their recorded reading, focusing on expression, rate, accuracy, and phrasing. |
| Fluency: Rapid Read | In this activity, students will practice reading target words and then read connected text containing these words with a partner. |
| Fluency: Poetry Reading | In this activity, students will read poems with a partner. |
| Fluency: Play It Up! | In this activity, students will rehearse and read text using a reader's theater format. |
| Fluency: Read and Read Again | In this activity, students will time repeated readings and graph words correct per minute. |
| Fluency: I Read, You Read | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading text with a partner. |
| Fluency: All Together Now | In this activity, students will read teacher-selected text in unison. |
| Fluency: Two To Read | In this activity, students will reread texts with a partner. |
| Fluency: Reading Wiz | In this activity, students will read texts within teacher-selected computer-based programs. |
| Fluency: Listen and Read | In this activity, students will practice reading fluently by reading along with pre-recorded text. |
| Fluency: Chunk It! | In this activity, students will divide text into meaningful parts and then read it fluently. |
| Fluency: Chunky Passages | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into a chunked format, then reread it fluently in its original format. |
| Fluency: Chunk-A-Lot | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful chunks, then reread it fluently without the slash marks. |
| Fluency: Chunk-King | In this activity, students will read text which has been divided into meaningful phrases by slash marks. |
| Fluency: Phrase Progression | In this activity, students will read phrases that progressively result in sentences. |
| Fluency: Phrase Speed Practice | In this activity, students will quickly read phrases in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fast Phrases | In this activity, students will read phrases in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fluent Phrasing | In this activity, students will read words that progressively result in sentences. |
| Fluency: Word Speed Practice | In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Word Sprint | In this activity, students will quickly read high-frequency words in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Pass the Word | In this activity, students will take turns reading high-frequency word cards in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Affix Zip | In this activity, students will quickly read affixes by doing timed practices. Included in this resource are syllable cards that extend the activity in CPALMS' resource . |
| Phonics: Say and Spell | In this activity, students will read and spell high frequency words. |
| Phonics: Word Concentration | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game. |
| Phonics: Jumping Words | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a checker game. |
| Phonics: Word Crazy | In this activity, students will read high frequency words by playing a card game. |
