Teaching reading fluency in the clasroom: from research to practice

Abstract

This paper describes a reading fluency intervention focused on empowering teachers with resources about reading fluency learning for making decisions in classrooms routines using accuracy, speed and prosody. 36 second-grade-students participated in fluency training. School teachers formed a school working group which count on two professor´s contribution to carry out knowledge and tasks on reading fluency. The group is designed to enhance collaboration between teachers to carry out evaluating fluency tasks to identified risk, emerging, and level group. An adapted fluency reading program based on repeated readings was designed and applied in collaboration for 7 months.Results have been much better in all tasks. Teacher perceptions of their own teaching skills also improved.  Fluency classroom programs based in repetitive readings impact and how to help teachers in a collaborative approach to develop fluency programs tailored to the size of their class group are discussed.