Teaching+Fluency

__Teaching Fluency__
Teach students what fluency means. Teach them to identify fluent reading. Model fluent reading during read-alouds. Encourage them to think about pacing, phrasing, expression, intonation and conveying the author's meaning with their voice. Then, during guided reading groups, **if you hear a student whose reading lacks fluency, stop and intervene as you would if the student had made a miscue or needed prompting for figuring out an unknown word.** Model how the sentence should sound with proper pacing, phrasing and expression. Have the child repeat after you. Try using the same language all of the time when prompting students to use efficient fluency skills. For instance, say "Can you put your words together when you read that? How would that sound if you read that like you were having a conversation?"