6 Week Fluency Intervention Plan for Intermediate Students
The National Center on Improving Literacy recently published a report and Toolbox called Fluency with Text. I highly recommend digging deep into this incredible resource! Here are the key take-aways.
There are 4 Steps to Building Fluency with Text:
1- repeated readings
2- goal setting
3- corrective feedback
4- graphing
This 6-week intervention cycle includes all four steps.
Another helpful resource when organizing this intervention plan is Matt Burn’s Partner Reading and Paragraph Shrinking. You can do this intervention format with an entire class or in an intervention group.
Weekly Plan:
Day 1: Focus- accuracy and meaning
Engagement activity to build interest and motivation
Cold Read (1 minute unrehearsed read, collect accuracy and correct words per minute to graph)
Model Read (read passage aloud modeling accurate, fluent reading)
Echo or Choral Read (read together with student to build accuracy and cadence)
Day 2: Focus- pace and meaning
Engagement activity to build interest
Choral Reading with teacher or group
Individual Reading (if possible) or Partner Reading with Corrective Feedback
Day 3: Focus- Phrasing and Punctuation
Engagement activity to sustain interest and engagement
Choral Read (read together with students)
Partner Reading with Corrective Feedback
Day 4: Focus- Prosody and Expression
Engagement activity to sustain interest and engagement
Partner Reading with Corrective Feedback
Paragraph Shrinking / Gist Summary (model and teach first, then scaffold to partner work, and finally, independent completion)
Day 5: Focus- Celebrate Growth
Final engagement activity done independently so you can access students
Hot Read (1 minute final read, collect accuracy and correct words per minute and graph)
Revisit goals and graph progress with students. Celebrate both accuracy and fluency improvement!
If little to no growth is seen after the first two weeks, adjust your instruction! Ensure accuracy! Go back to word, phrase, sentence level fluency. Try a lower-level text. Begin the process again and monitor progress and adjust instruction weekly!
Most importantly, fluency intervention can and should feel fun! If it’s drudgery or punitive, students will most likely not improve! This Reading Rev 6 Week Intervention Unit brings repeated reading to life. Students will build background knowledge while gaining much needed fluency and prosody. The entire 6 week plan is easy to implement in just 15-20 day. Each passage comes in 2 Lexile Levels. You can find it in the Reading Rev VIP Site or here.
If you need additional support for intermediate fluency, check out our previous Rethinking Fluency Blog.