Six Minute Fluency

Six Minute Fluency is a program we began this week in the classroom. It is an added supplement to our reading block where students spend six minutes increasing their reading fluency through interactive, peer-to-peer repeated readings of high interest, leveled passages.  

Students are paired with a reading buddy, where they are reading informational text passages based on social studies and science content. This helps to enhance their background knowledge and content area vocabulary. Each set of partners are given a new passage each Monday to read for the week. Partners work together to track one anothers reading errors. To follow, they help each other solve errors, graph words read correctly within one minute, and visually see fluency growth on their graph throughout the week.

Their six minute fluency folders will be available for students to also use as reading practice during read to self and other book choice reading times.