Fluency First Podcast

How can classroom teachers help support the writing development of elementary students?

This podcast focuses on reivewing what research has to say about developing fluent readers.  Topics covered included how fluency is defined in educaiton research, constructs of fluency, and instructional practices that help build fluency.

 

*Assessment of fluency is not addressed.

Second graders read My Mother Took My Ice Skating by Jack Prelusky to build fluency.

Second grader read for enjoyment and build fluency by reading Pets-a-Palooza by Jeff Foxworthy.  Subscribe to the podcast and have your young reader practice by reading along.

Color poems written during our first grade writer's workshop.

Poems read by the students.  These are the first poems we have written.

Choral reading of Things by Mrs. Domer's first grade class.  Great job everyone!  We love this poem and first read it to help us practice making inferences.

Fox Finds a Box

(Scott Foresman Reading Street)

Fox finds a big box

A good place to hide.

Fox makes the box a taxi

and goes for a ride.

Fix me up a box fox

so I can fit inside.

written by first grade student.

From A to Z

(Scott Foresman Curriculum)

Hop on the bus and ride with the

ABCDEFG

We'll ride along from A to Z

HIJKLMNOP

There are rhymes for you and me

QRSTUV

This will be frun you will see

WXY AND Z