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This week in class: FLUENCY!

What is Fluency? Fluency is the ability to think, read, write, and speak smoothly. In class we
read Flies, Little Miss Moffet, and acted out a reader's theatre of Goldilocks and the three bears,
all while focusing on reading and speaking our assignments with our best fluency!

Fun at home activities to help improve FLUENCY!


Low tech (no tech) ideas: Tech option:
1. The parrot game- In this activity you read a passage to your 1.Print out a reader's theatre and play as a family!
child (modeling how the passage should sound) and have This website has some fun free readers theatres
your child repeat what you just read with the same
pintables.
expression and emotion. Remember BE EXPRESSIVE B-E
EXPRESSIVE!!! http://www.thebestclass.org/rtscripts.html

2.The Tone game, this will help children understand


the overall tone of what they are reading i.e, positive,
2. Stopwatch, READ!- in this game you have your child read a neutral, or negative. This will help with not only
given passage in a certain amount of time. fluency but expressiveness.
-set a stopwatch for 1 minute
https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/ReadingTone
-Have your child read a passage with as few errors as possible /play.html
-Notice where your child struggles, and work on those areas.
-set the timer and give it a try again!

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