Fluency Activity

Repeated reading

What is repeated reading?: The act of rereading certain passages over and over again until a certain number is reached OR a method that requires students to listen to a teacher read a selection and then read the selection after the teacher. (Reading the same book over and over).

Example (http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/modules/rea-rep.htm):

Choose a sentence from the chosen reading material.

The teacher reads the sentence out loud, pointing to words as she reads. Pointing to the words, while reading, demonstrates the relationship between speech and print.

The teacher reads the sentence again, while the student points to the words.

The student and teacher read the sentence together, with the teacher pointing to the words.

Teacher and student read sentence again, with the student pointing to the words this time.

If the student feels comfortable, he is asked to read and point to the sentence on his own.

Ideas to incorporate this activity into a weekly schedule.

At the beginning of the week (Monday) the teacher will introduce and read a big book to the class as a whole, and then provide the same book in smaller form and group them into small groups to reread the book to each other.

Tuesday during independent reading time, have individual students that need to work on fluency (as seen in your observation of Monday's activity) come and work on certain phrases and short sentences that are in the book from Monday. (Rereading the phrases and short sentences over and over again until they are comfortable).

Wednesday the teacher will pair together two readers to reread the book together and to help each other when they are stuck.

Thursday the teacher will assign a homework assignment for the children to read the book at home to their parents and to write down any phrases or words that gave them trouble.

Friday the students will talk about any phrases or words that gave them trouble the night before and then be assigned a “Kindergarten Buddy” to reread their story from the week to their buddy.