Welcome readers! This is the page where you can click to read fluency passages for grades 1-5 (yes, I've included a few for grade 5 to challenge some of my readers). You may want to print them or you can just view and read them online. How to's & tips are listed below the links:
SUMMER PRINTABLE STORIES & QUESTION (click here) SETS-
Grade 3-4 Click here for new passages or see below
Fluency passages from McGraw Hill- Grades 1-6
Passages to practice advanced phonics skills, fluency & comprehension
Looking for online game resources? Click Here: OnlineResources.docx
Grade 1 printable fluency passages:
Aspecialgarden.pdf
G1U3_Kit_and_Rex_Student_Passage.pdf
Prettywhitefox.pdf
SoccerCamp.pdf
Grade 2 printable fluency passages:
Ann&Tom.pdf
Carla.pdf
Max.pdf
Spot.pdf
Grade 3 printable fluency passages:
G3Bumpy_Travels.pdf
G3Farmer_Paul_s_New_Scarecrow.pdf
G3FruitFun.pdf
G3Polar_Regions.pdf
G3TheLargestPlants.pdf
G3U3_Sun_Facts_Student_Passage.pdf
G3Wolf_Watchers.pdf
Grade 4 printable fluency passages:
G4The_Saturday_Morning_Project_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U2_A_Special_Honor_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U2_An_Old_Way_of_Life_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U3_Let_s_Go_Skating_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U3_New_Products_for_People_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U4_Making_Perfume_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U4_Plant_Art_Student_Passage.pdf
G4U6_The_Biggest_Land_Animal_Student_Passage.pdf
Grade 5 printable fluency passages-for those who'd like a challenge!:
G5U1_A_New_Game_Student_Passage.pdf
G5U1_Too_Much_Water_Student_Passage.pdf
G5U2_Inspiration_Student_Passage.pdf
G5U2_The_Big_Wave_Student_Passage.pdf
All GRADES 1-5- Florida Assessments for Instruction in Readin Oral Reading Fluency Grades 1-5-This will provide a printable pdf booklet of assessments for grades 1-5 with instructions:
Printable graph for practice and charting:
fluency graphs.pdf
What is fluency passage practice?
Practicing with fluency passages is an important part of helping your child improve with their ability to read fluently. If your child makes many errors while reading or the reading does not sound like a spoken conversation, he or she needs to practice reading fluency. Early readers spend a great deal of mental energy sounding out (decoding) the words on the page. Their reading often times sound robotic - not fluent. As a child learns the phonetic rules and can apply them with ease along with having automatic recall of all sight words, reading begins to sound more like fluent reading.
By fourth grade your child should be reading a minimum of 93 w.p.m. (words per minute) at the beginning of the year. Students progress to a reading rate of 105 w.p.m. (words per minute) by mid-year. As the fourth grade year comes to a close, your child should be reading at least 118 w.p.m (words per minute).
You will need to print out 2 copies of each passage-or you can use one copy and keep a mental tally of errors. (Optional) Set a timer for one minute. Mark through any words read incorrectly or skipped. Place a bracket around the last word read within the one minute time frame. Each time you read, can you increase the words per minute? THINK AS YOU READ-Make a movie in your mind. Can you remember the story to re-tell the main idea, details, and events all in a sequential order-try it!
