B. Develop and utilize reading fluency strategies

1. Listen to good models of fluent reading
2. Develop fluency by rethinking short passages at independent level (AL COS)  Examples: student-adult reading, choral reading, tape-assisted reading, partner reading, reader's theater, shared reading
3. Adjust speed/rate (AL COS)
4. Read with appropriate phrasing and intonation
5. Recognize the effect of punctuation and expression

Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom
This lesson from ReadWriteThink invites students to interact with a variety of different texts as they uncover the meaning of reading.

Ocean World: Creative Writing
The overall purpose of this lesson is to engage students in a shared reading experience and have them create original, expressive written stories.

Be the Sentence-An Interactive Language Arts Activity
Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation.

Developing Expression and Fluency Through Recognition of Punctuation
While it says the grade level of this lesson is for 3-6, it can be modified to use with second grade.

The Reading Genie: Developing Reading Fluency:  Direct and indirect approaches to developing reading fluency are reviewed.

Before and After Reading Activities for Guided Reading:  This PDF file offers a chart has ideas for before and after reading activities.

Reading Instructional Philosophy and Teaching Strategies:  This site has ideas for activities before and after a book is read.

Strategies Help Reluctant Silent Readers Read to Learn:  This site offers strategies to help reluctant readers silently read for meaning.

Teaching Students to Self-Evaluate:  Here a printable checklist for self-evaluation during reading.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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