YouTube Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9sE_b7j7o&feature=related
This video describes and demonstrates four different fluency activities. Watch Ava and Alyssa demonstrate readers theatre, choral reading, echo reading, and fluency cards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XkbCn5npq0
This reading rocket video discusses and shows clips of an after school reading program in Malden, Massachusetts. The program, RAVE-O, helps teach reading fluency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjf2Ttxvpo&feature=related
A concerned mom talks about ideas that parents can implement to help their children with reading fluency. Her ideas are creative and make sense. This is a must see for parents and teachers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U8pjX4p2c
This video defines fluency and talks about its importance, especially for struggling readers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oERVrjyApGk
This video shows teachers exploring the different aspects of fluency in children’s reading. They focus on reading with expression and use of phrases in students’ reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UzOdquuvZs&feature=related
A teacher talks about his reading program and how he ensures that his students are reading appropriate leveled books in order to enhance their fluency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVZYEGFfUk&feature=related
A teacher demonstrates to her class different aspects of a being a fluent reader during a read aloud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ANiJfAgB0
This teacher encourages and empowers her students to read fluently by having her students practice reading poetry with fluency and expression and then performing their poems for the class.
Kid Friendly Websites
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
This website has various kid games. There are three levels, games for younger students on word families, a section with games and poetry to help students with reading, and then a section called, “I’m Reading.” This site also has math and history games that you can navigate to.
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/popcornWords.html
This site helps students to learn common sight words. You can advance levels but knowing sight words quickly and accurately.
Resources for Teachers
http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/
http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/Games/GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm
This site is great for teachers because it has templates and games already made that you can adjust to fit your needs. The game templates are created in Microsoft Office so that you can download them and then change words, or concepts. This site has more than games, it offers ideas about classroom set up, great buys for teacher, reading strategies, and pictures of how all these things look in a real classroom.
http://www.readingrockets.org/
This is an informational site that has current ideas and practices that teachers should know about reading.
http://www.readingresource.net/readingfluency.html
http://www.readingresource.net/readingfluencyactivities.html
This site has some fluency lessons and ideas that you can look at. You might want to use the ideas given to create a lesson that would work for your class or a specific student’s needs.
http://www.realclassroomideas.com/194.html
This site has the beanie baby strategy posters, bookmarks, and book basket labels. It has the decoding strategy posters as well as the comprehension ones.
http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html
This site has lists of high frequency words. There are ten sets of 100 words starting with words for young children, moving into the older grades.
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/fluency.html
This website shows different ideas for ways to improve students’ literacy and how and when to implement the strategies. Also included are ideas to assess fluency and a small collection of links to other fluency sites.
www.readinglady.com
Readers Theatre’s Scripts
Resources for High School Teachers
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/voices/3qtr2001/adlit.shtml
This website contains an article from a California high school English teacher who first approached teaching reading with resistance. She soon learned that by teaching her students how to become better readers, she was able to better teach content. Throughout the article, the teacher offers the many strategies that she used in order to teach reading at the high school level.
http://www.reading.org/downloads/resources/597coaching_standards.pdf
This link leads to a downloadable version of the International Reading Association’s Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches. These standards provide a foundation for all literacy coaches.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/thematic-differentiation-high-school-literacy
This page on scholastic.com provides an article that outlines thematic differentiation for high school literacy. The author of this article provides the basics on how to teach literacy using thematic units, but also how to ensure differentiation in instructor throughout the teaching of those units.
http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/PDF/LiteracyCoach.pdf
Above is a link to a downloadable .pdf file of a literacy coaching guide for high school teachers entitled The Literacy Coach: A Key to Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools. This guide provides strategies and recommendations for becoming an effective secondary literacy specialist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhThfo6N5U&feature=related
This link is an example of a reader's theater performance of Shel Silverstiens "Where the Sidewalk Ends." This video is not exclusive to the adolescent level, but is an authentic way for adolescents to practice fluency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qszeuSgji2o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYY-2iRQYU&feature=relmfu
Above are two videos of reader's theater performances by adolescent students for childhood students.
