Has anyone had experiences using repeated readings to effect fluency on a
struggling student at a 6th or 7th grade level? If you have seen gains in the
child's fluency rate, has there also been an increase in the child's motivation
and willingness to read?
Thanks,
Julie
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Have you used Read Naturally? It is a great fluency tool for motivating
reluctant readers, plus it works well for all age groups, since the text is
informational and usually interesting to the students. Also, you can also
select passages that are written to practice phonics patterns and the
compr
At the 6th grade level I found great success using my progress monitoring with
3 trials. For progress monitoring I had to record the first trial results, but
for the students we would look at growth through the three trials. They could
see the goals wcpm and see how much closer they got on the
A few years ago, there was an excellent article in Reading Teacher about
"Poetry Pals" - I've found that my 5th graders enjoy reading poetry (limited
choice each week) and love the Poetry Cafe we have at the end of the year - yes
it carries over into their reading of fiction and nonfiction text
