Repeated Reading

There are many valuable strategies to help students increase fluency.  Research shows that if your only strategy is Repeated Reading, your fluency scores will substantially increase. This is because the best way to become a better reader is to READ!  With Repeated Readings, students are reading regularly and increasing their confidence, which will increase motivation.  

Here are a few suggestions with Repeated Readings:

• Have a student do a one-minute “cold read” on Monday with a new passage. Record the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) score on a graph or the Repeated Reading Chart (found in the IOG Masters).
• Students should practice reading this same passage each day and record their ORF. This can be done in pairs to increase the number of times a student views the passage. 
• You can also send this home as a homework idea.  It only takes one minute to read it to a parent and record the progress!
• On Friday, do a final reading to see if the student can “beat” their Monday score.  Record their progress on the chart.
• Repeat with a new passage for the following week. 

With Repeated Readings, students read regularly and will see that they can increase their reading fluency with each reading.  Seeing this visual on a chart will raise their self-esteem and boost their motivation to read!