﻿ Ready    Ready, Set, Read Faster!   Growing Independence and
Fluency   By Rachel Thompson   Rationale: Once you have reached
fluency in your reading, you are now an expert reader! Fluency
is the ability to identify words accurately, rapidly and
automatically and is read at the rate in which you speak. There
are three significant skills needed to become a fluent reader:
the ability to read faster, smoother, and more emotionally. To
gain fluency, students need to read and reread the same text
multiple times so that they will learn to recognize all of the
words automatically. When students read in partners, they have
each other to help decode words and it allows them to practice
reading out loud.    ∙A copy of Kite Day at Pine Lake for each
student  ∙A stop watch for each pair of students  ∙A Speed
Record Sheet for each student  ∙A Fluency Literacy Rubric for
each student  ∙A dry erase marker  Description: http://www.aubur
n.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/invitations/SpeedRecordSh
eet.jpg  Fluency Literacy