6 Minute Fluency

Six Minute Fluency is a program we have started in the classroom for reading. This quickly builds fluency through interactive, peer-to-peer repeated readings of high interest, targeted readability passages. It will help students develop a foundational knowledge of phonetic elements, automatic sight word vocabulary, and the ability to read text fluently. Six Minute Fluency will only use six minutes of our instructional day. Students are paired with a "literacy buddy" reading informational text passages based on social studies and science content. This helps to enhance their background knowledge and content area vocabulary. Paired buddies will be given a new passage every Monday to read for the week. Students are working together with their partners to track one another, help solve errors, and graph results each day to show growth. This is our second day using Six Minute Fluency and the students are doing great! I will be more than happy to have this available to present at parent/teacher conferences or at a separate time if you have more questions or concerns.