Fluency station

Science of Reading is taking over elementary classrooms, and today I’m sharing how to incorporate Science of Reading centers into your classroom. Science of Reading has 5 components: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. These components can be used to create play centers or center games. I also like to use multisensory word work in centers as well. Check out my K-2 classroom no prep centers and center management and get started today!

Activities that boost fluency all year long…and that you only have to prep once!

Am I the only one who has early finishers or 10 minute blocks of time with no real purpose (isn't master scheduling grand....)? Today I would like you to meet two of my Personal Teaching Commandments: Busy work is a crime. Keep reading sacred. Allow me to explain... Busy work is a crime. I do not like keeping students busy with busy work. I think that like anything in life, we need to know what our purpose is behind our tasks because it drives intrinsic motivation. This especially holds true…

Remember how I promised you sweet kinder teachers I would be making fluency passages for you? Well, Cara has created fluency centers to get kinders-3rd graders going on the road to fluency! Are you dying with excitement? I am!!! Cara and I are linking arms to help kids fall in love with reading and have fun doing it! Let me tell you Cara has a fluency center your students will love! Check out the glory of all this cuteness…. How cool is that? I am a fluency nerd, so Cara’s center makes me…

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

FREE Daily Fluency Task Card Set -- 24 seasonal task cards in each set to reinforce the different components of FLUENCY throughout the year (@MsJordanReads)

Here in third grade, we practice fluency daily with: -Word Lists -Phrase Lists -Passages/Running Records My Mental Journey I have had a love-hate relationship with fluency. As a third grade teacher, my students are subject to end of year, high-stakes testing for the first time. Fluency is not tested on these exams, students have

Does your school use the Dibel's test? After giving the Dibels, I found that I needed to strengthen my students' fluency skills. My schedule already seemed completely full. Where would I find more time to give my students practice reading so they could become more fluent readers? One thing I found that helped with their fluency skills was making fluency centers one of my standard centers. I knew I wanted this center to have the same format each week so I wouldn't have to explain the…

Word work in kindergarten, first grade, or even 2nd can be easy with these Daily 5 activities. Students use a variety of materials to work with words. Whether you are using this for centers, a hands on option for stations, or just some easy games to play with words during the day these ideas are a big hit! Organization is simple, there are NO COPIES to make, and your students will become better readers in no time. #kindergartenclassroom #wordwork #centers

Like most teachers, you want your students to be successful readers. But what do you do if they struggle with reading fluency? Reading fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with