Fluency Level 2
Part of the Fluency skill progression -- 8 lessons, each building toward demonstrated mastery.
8 Lessons
What Your Child Will Learn
- 1
Reading with Expression
Understand why expression matters in reading and how fluent readers sound different from word-by-word readers.
Objective: Students will understand why reading with expression matters and identify the difference between robot reading and fluent reading.45 minutes - 2
Punctuation Guides Expression
Learn how periods, commas, and question marks tell us how to read aloud with appropriate pauses and intonation.
Objective: Students will respond to periods, commas, and question marks with appropriate pauses and voice changes while reading.45 minutes - 3
Exclamations and Dialogue
Learn to read exclamation points with strong feeling and use character voices for dialogue in quotation marks.
Objective: Students will read exclamatory sentences with appropriate emotion and use different voices for characters in dialogue.45 minutes - 4
Phrasing Practice
Learn to read in meaningful phrases rather than word-by-word using phrase-cued reading techniques.
Objective: Students will read text in meaningful phrases instead of word-by-word, grouping words that belong together.45 minutes - 5
Echo Reading
Develop prosody skills by immediately echoing a fluent model's reading with matching expression and phrasing.
Objective: Students will echo fluent reading models, matching expression, phrasing, and intonation immediately after hearing them.45 minutes - 6
Partner Reading
Practice fluency skills through collaborative reading with a partner, providing and receiving supportive feedback.
Objective: Students will practice fluent reading with a partner, giving and receiving constructive feedback on expression and phrasing.45 minutes - 7
Reader's Theater Introduction
Learn to perform scripts with expression using Reader's Theater techniques.
Objective: Students will perform a Reader's Theater script with appropriate character voices and expression.45 minutes - 8
Review and Application
Apply all prosody skills learned in FL-2 to demonstrate expressive reading across different text types.
Objective: Students will apply all FL-2 prosody skills (expression, punctuation response, dialogue, phrasing, echo reading, partner reading, performance) across varied texts.45 minutes
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