Many students struggle with oral fluency, especially those with language-based reading deficiencies. Overcoming this challenge requires explicit Oral Fluency training, which helps to increase student performance by strengthening neural pathways and oral-language skill connections.
New with the Academy of READING®, Oral Reading training enables students to play an active role in the development of their oral reading fluency—an essential step in becoming an active, fluent reader.
Scalable, flexible solution
- Easy to access via web-based delivery; students can access from any workstation on school or district network
- Provides flexibility and control for teachers through management tools that allow them to quickly and easily review and evaluate each student’s progress
- Grows with your school or district to accommodate large groups of students, delivering the essential training for students to achieve fluency and build strong reading skills
Oral Subskills
- Students work from letters, syllables and high-frequency words to phrases and sentences that increase in complexity as the student advances
- Students rehearse, record and self-evaluate their oral reading of the text
Oral Comprehension
- Exercises designed to develop strategies for better comprehension, including reading vocabulary and the ability to identify the main idea and author’s purpose
- Exposes students to leveled passages of high-interest reading content and a range of pre-reading activities, multiple choice questions and vocabulary
Fluency Benchmarks
- Provides timed, cold readings to help teachers assess each student’s progress
- "Play list" is provided through an online portfolio so that student recordings can be reviewd and scored by the teacher at any time
- Fluency recordings can be scored using a Words Correct perMinute (WCPM) score and the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) 4-point scale
Brochure: Oral Reading Fluency [PDF will download]
Research Brief: Reading Fluency — A Bridge from Decoding to Comprehension [PDF will download]
