Fluency Interventions

There are 3 fantastic research-based fluency programs the Reading Specialists and classroom teachers use to apply what they have learned as decoders.



Read Naturally is excellent for students who are non-fluent readers who need to increase spped, accuracy, and expression. There are levels .8-5.6 available at Brooks and 24 non-fiction, high-interest stories per level. During this process the teacher is able to monitor the student's oral reading speed, accuracy, expression, and overall understanding of the story. After passing a story, the student completes a graph reflecting the number of words he/she read correctly. This allows the student to see his/her progress from the "cold timing" step to the "hot timing" step. There is a computer version as well as a "hard copy" version.



Six-Minute Solutions is excellent for struggling readers as well as fluent readers. Struggling readers gain fluency first at the word level and then at the passage level, while competent readers are challenged to read more expressive texts that are increasingly more difficult and sophisticated.

Great Leaps is a program that hopes to provide meaningful practice for the dysfunctional elementary reader in grades 3-5. The program is very efficient in its remedial strategies. Great Leaps focuses on the behaviors of reading and attempts to train and reinforce prerequisite reading behaviors. There is a phonics section, sight word phrase, and story section.