A. Demonstrate increased fluency

1. attention to punctuation
2. articulation (speak clearly and correctly)
3. adjust rate
4. recognize effect of pause, volume, pitch, and tone
5. automaticity
6. phrasing 

A Daily DEAR Program: Drop Everything, And Read!
This independent reading program is much more than a just-sit-there-and-read experience—it's a program that helps students build the habit of lifelong reading for the love of it.

Willie Nelson: All Together Now!
Using Willie Nelson's words, students can recite his words in one voice, analyze his lyrics, and learn about this important person in America's musical history.

Readers Theater
Through this activity, students have the opportunity to develop fluency and further enhance comprehension of what they are reading.

Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
In this lesson, students work in small groups to develop a choral reading of two poems about an assigned insect. The poems serve as an introduction to a research investigation (via the Internet) about the insect. Students compile factual information about the insect and present the information, along with their choral poetry readings to the class.
 

Guided Reading Opportunities In Good Literature:  This site from Carol Hurst has examples of how to do guided reading with specific literature.

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

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

E/B: Read one's own writing and possibly some simple, brief narrative texts and begin to produce phonemes appropriately; D: Read simple narrative and expository texts with some elements of appropriate voice and expression; E: Read narrative and expository text with appropriate timing, voice, and expression.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know and morphemes in simple phrases and possibly sentences; D: Recognize and produce frequently heard synonyms and homographs; E: Understand most frequently heard synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
D: Identify similes and metaphors in simple literature; E: Explain use of figurative language (i.e. similes, metaphors).
E: Understand roots and affixes to derive meaning from literature.
 

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