Tag: Fluency

Do you need activities to help your students practice fact fluency? Check out these math ideas to get you started with teaching multiplication!

Activities for Practicing Fact Fluency

Gone are the days of simply telling kiddos to memorize their multiplication facts. In order for students to master their facts and be fluent in

The Three Phases of Fact Fluency

When I think of learning multiplication and division facts, I instantly think of things like flashcards, timed tests, and around the world activities. I remember

Reading fluency is about more than just pace, accuracy, and smoothness. It is also about expression! I share my process for teaching expression in fluency in this blog post, which includes a discussion of how punctuation marks influence expression and fluency. Get all of the tips in this post!

Teaching Expression in Fluency

Recently I posted 8 Ideas to Build Fluency, but there is so much more to fluency than just reading at a good pace and accurately.

Although it may not seem like it, reading fluency is incredibly important for comprehension. If students cannot read fluently, then their ability to comprehend what they read is impeded. This blog post shares eight ideas to help build fluency in your students, so click through to get all eight of them!

8 Ideas to Help Build Fluency

Fluency is extremely important because it takes students a step beyond word recognition and into the land of comprehension. Once students are no longer focusing

Do you have students who struggle with reading fluency and decoding? Use these ideas and strategies for reading interventions to help your reader move up in reading levels!

Ideas for Reading Interventions

When I first started teaching third grade, I discovered a whole new world when it came to teaching reading and reading interventions. It was interesting,

Speaking and Listening are important common core reading skills that MUST be implemented in your reading lessons. The best way to do that is by using these FREE conversation cards!

Speaking & Listening Conversation Cards

We have several Common Core Standards that require students to practice their speaking and listening skills. If your students are like mine, they tend to