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Fluency Passages! Welcome readers! This is the page where you can click to read fluency passages for grades 1-5.Keep in mind that fluency is much more than how many words are read in a minute. Fluency includes expression, rate of speed, and attention to punctuation. 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: ORF-OPM_grs1-5.pdf 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! |
Dibels Guide for parents... |
DIBELS Next Information.... This year our district will be using an updated version of Dibels called "Dibels Next" see this FAQ page: http://dibels.org/faqsNext.html
All students will be assessed 3 times per year in the following DIBELS Next benchmarks according to grade level and time of the year: *First Sound Fluency- An indicator of a child's ability to identify a beginning (or intial) sound after hearing a stated word. *Phoneme Segmentation Fluency-An indicator of a child's ability to listen to a word and break it into sounds: For example: /dog/ = /d/.../o/.../g/ /spoon/ =/s/.../p/.../oo/.../n/ *Letter Naming Fluency- An indicator of a child's ability to state the names of letters in one minute. *Nonsense Word Fluency- An indicator of a child's ability to read short vowel words. *Oral Reading Fluency-An indicator of a child's ability to read a short passage to gauge a fluency rate in one minute. *Oral Reading Fluency-An indicator of a child's ability to read a short passage to gauge a fluency rate in one minute. A Retell score is generated to indicate comprehension of text read. This is a performance-based assessement, students are asked to read a story at his/her reading level. Some or all of the text is read aloud for a fluency measure. To assess comprehension students are then asked to re-tell the story. Students should be able to recall important details and story concpets in their re-telling. This assessment provides information about the child's ability to decode and read fluently, their understanding of the text, and their ability to respond to written and/or oral prompts. DAZE-An indicator of comprehension-students have 3 minues to read a passage. Some words are omitted, the student chooses a word from a selection of 3 provided words. See the timeline below: (obtained from Dibels.org) The following information was obtained from Dibels. org: History of DIBELS... DIBELS were developed based on measurement procedures for Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), which were created by Deno and colleagues through the Institute for Research and Learning Disabilities at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s-80s (e.g., Deno and Mirkin, 1977; Deno, 1985; Deno and Fuchs, 1987; Shinn, 1989). Like CBM, DIBELS were developed to be economical and efficient indicators of a student's progress toward achieving a general outcome. Initial research on DIBELS was conducted at the University of Oregon in the late 1980s. Since then, an ongoing series of studies on DIBELS has documented the reliability and validity of the measures as well as their sensitivity to student change. The DIBELS authors were motivated then, as now, by the desire to improve educational outcomes for children, especially those from poor and diverse backgrounds. Research on DIBELS continues at Dynamic Measurement Group (DMG) and at numerous universities and research institutions around the world.Which skills do the DIBELS measures assess? The DIBELS measures were specifically designed to assess the Big Ideas of early literacy: Phonological Awareness, Alphabetic Principle, Fluency with Connected Text, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. The measures are linked to one another, both psychometrically and theoretically, and have been found to be predictive of later reading proficiency. Combined, the measures form an assessment system of early literacy development that allows educators to readily and reliably determine student progress. Why use DIBELS?The purpose of the DIBELS Benchmark goals is to provide educators with standards for gauging the progress of all students. The Benchmark goals represent minimum levels of performance for all students to reach in order to be considered on track for becoming a reader. The DIBELS goals and cut scores are research-based, criterion-referenced scores. They indicate the probability of achieving subsequent early literacy goals. Benchmark goals for each measure and time period were established using a minimum cut point at which the odds were in favor of a student achieving the next benchmark goal. For a score to be considered a benchmark goal, at least 80% to 85% of students in the sample with that score at that point in time had to achieve the next goal. So, for a child with a score at or above the benchmark goal at a given point, the probability is high for achieving the next goal; the probability of need for additional support to achieve the next goal is low. |
Reading calendars: from RIF
Want to earn a FREE Book? Try the Barnes & Noble Sumer Reading Challenge! http://www.lexile.com/fab/ -Great tool for finding grade level books and reading materials. http://www.kidsclick.org/ - A great site for searching for items. http://www.primarygames.com/ -This is a site with interactive games for learning many subjects- K-3 http://www.prongo.com/games/ -This site is for older learners grades 3-4 http://www.mathcats.com/ -site devoted to math activities & games |