Elements of Effective Reading Instruction 2 What Is

Elements of Effective Reading Instruction 2

What Is Fluency? “Fluency is the ability to read smoothly, easily, and readily with freedom from word recognition errors. ” –Wiley Blevins Author, Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success 3

The Fluency Formula 4

The Fluency Formula Swift Recognition of Words 5

The Fluency Formula Swift Recognition of Words Decoding Precision 6

The Fluency Formula Swift Recognition Oral Expressiveness of Words Decoding Precision 7

Why is Fluency Important? “Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read. ” –The Partnership for Reading 8

How To Build Fluency According to the National Reading Panel, we must provide students with: • Oral Fluency Assessment • Direct Fluency Instruction & Intervention • Leveled Fluency Practice 9

Scholastic’s Experts • Maryanne Wolf • Calvin L. Gidney • Timothy Rasinski • Kevin Feldman • Phyllis Hunter • Wiley Blevins 10

Fluency Formula Kits Grade-Level Kits for Grades 1 -6 12

The Fluency Formula Kit ASSESSMENT SYSTEM DIRECT INSTRUCTION LEVELED PRACTICE 13

FF Assessment System Why? 1) Ensure all students have fluency levels necessary to comprehend grade-level text 2) Identify students in need of fluency intervention 14

Fluency Formula Assessment System It allows teachers to: • Measure fluency with precision in just 5 minutes per student • Integrate fluency assessment with any reading program 15

Fluency Formula Assessment System • Report WCPM scores to district/states • Interpret fluency scores to measure against norms • Tailor instruction based on assessment results 16

How it Works: • Step 1: Give an Oral Fluency Assessment (OFA) to all students. • Step 2: Interpret students' OFA scores using the Norm Chart. 17

How To Assess Fluency • Step 3: Tailor Instruction. • Step 4: Monitor Progress. 18

Assessment informs instruction.

The Fluency Formula Kit ASSESSMENT SYSTEM DIRECT INSTRUCTION & INTERVENTION LEVELED PRACTICE 20

Direct Fluency Instruction “We should be as explicit in how we help a child learn to read fluently, as we are in teaching a child to decode a word accurately. ” –Maryanne Wolf, Tufts University 21

Fluency Intervention “Research suggests that a fairly large percentage of intermediate grade students, upwards of 50%, may not have acquired sufficient fluency skills to maximize their comprehension of the texts they read. ” –Timothy Rasinski, Kent State University (Summarizing research by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, et al) 22

Direct Fluency Instruction Day 1: Direct Instruction - Read–Aloud Day 2: Guided Practice - Fluency Library 23

Direct Fluency Instruction Day 3: Direct Instruction - Fluency Activity Card Day 4: Guided Practice - Fluency Flip Chart & Leveled Passage Reproducibles 24

Fluency Instruction & Intervention Fluency Formula Weekly Plan Day 1 & 2 For All Students Day 3, 4 & 5 For Intervention 25

DAY 5 Assessment informs instruction.

The Fluency Formula Kit ASSESSMENT SYSTEM DIRECT INSTRUCTION & INTERVENTION LEVELED PRACTICE 27

Leveled Practice “Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a high degree of success. ” –Elementary & Secondary Education Act 28

Fluency Formula Libraries What’s unique? • Carefully leveled books to build automaticity Grade Reading Levels 1 2 3 4 5 6 . 1 – 1. 5. 5 – 2. 5 1. 5 – 3. 5 2. 0 – 4. 5 3. 0 – 5. 5 4. 0 – 6. 5 29

Fluency Formula Libraries What’s unique? • Carefully leveled books to build automaticity • Quick reads (16 pgs avg) • High-interest fiction and non-fiction topics • Read-along audio CDs: practice & expert speeds • Each grade-level library includes 24 books and 4 Audio CDs. 30

Fluency Formula Kits Aligned to NCLB Leveled Practice Assessment Instruction & Intervention 31

Professional Development Included with Fluency Formula: • Professional Guide with research articles and “notes from research” throughout • Wiley Blevins’ Building Fluency 32

PRICING • • FF KIT LIST PRICE $833. 33 FF LIBRARY LIST PRICE 398. 67 FF WORKBOOKS 9. 97 ACTIVITY CARDS SET 166. 67 33

PROMTIONAL ITEMS AVAILABLE 427714 Fluency Formula Practice sell sheet 428322 Fluency Formula Assessment System Brochure 427808 Fluency Formula Kit Brochure 427775 Fluency Research Paper - Guided Instr. 427776 Fluency Research Paper - Assessment 427777 Fluency Research Paper - Fluency and ELL 427778 Fluency Research Paper - What is Fluency? 437616 Fluency OFA Impact Study 895162 Fluency Effectiveness Report - 2 nd grade study 897410 Fluency Formula Grade 2 Touring Guide 897408 Fluency Formula Grade 5 Touring Guide 434248 Fluency Form TE Excerpts Gr 2 434249 Fluency Form TE Excerpts Gr 5 34

952397 Fluency GR 1 Bookmarks 952398 Fluency GR 2 Bookmarks 952399 Fluency GR 3 Bookmarks 952400 Fluency GR 4 Bookmarks 952401 Fluency GR 5 Bookmarks 952402 Fluency GR 6 Bookmarks 897852 Fluency Brochure 897854 Fluency Folder 130084 From the First What Works With First Graders 959073 Fluency Formula Grade 2 Sampler 959074 Fluency Formula Grade 5 Sampler 35

“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: they begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. ” –William James 36