Heather Coulter

EDU 474

Qualitative Reading Inventory- Fluency

FLUENCY
Expression and Volume:
The student reads words as if simply to get them out. Little sense is made of trying to
make text sound like natural language. She receives a score of 1/4 on the Expression and Volume
rubric scale.

Phrasing:
The student does possess automaticity when reading, but her prosody scale level is a 2.

She reads in two-word phrases at a time, with awkward word groupings. The student reads from

a monotone to choppy reading. She fails to mark ends of sentences and clauses, with improper

stress and intonation. She receives a score of 2/4 on the fluency phrasing rubric.

Smoothness:
The students reading is very choppy and is not smooth. She does not provide punctuation

and pause between sentences but combines sentences in a way that is difficult to make sense of

when one sentence starts and another ends. She has several “rough spots” in text where extended

pauses or hesitations are frequent and disruptive. She more than occasionally, and frequently,

breaks smooth rhythm because of difficulties with specific words and structures. She was given a

2/4 on smoothness on the fluency rubric.

Pace:

The student has an uneven to slow reading pace. She may choppily rush through a

reading, often omitting known and unknown words, and substituting unknown words for known

words. Or she may pause and read slowly and monotone at other times. She does not stop to use

word attack skills, such as decoding, while reading. She reads with an uneven mixture of fast

and slow pace, scoring a 3/4 on the fluency scale.