After basic reading fluency activities for students is a great idea. These are aimed at helping to  have a better reading comprehension and practice better reading so that their listeners can easily comprehend the text.Fluency, like reading, is a learned skill. Teachers usually make up activities that will enhance reading fluency. Below are some of the suggested fluency activities.

The Oh! No Game

This is a fun game for children that will enhance their fluency at the same time. Have 12 blank cards and write sentences on the 10 cards and “Oh! No” on the two cards. Put them all in the bowl.Each student will get a card and then he will read it aloud. He gets to keep the card if he has read the sentences correctly. He will put the card back to the bowl if not. If the student gets the “Oh! No” card, he has to return all of his cards in the bowl. The student with the most number of cards at the end of the game is the winner.

Reading People

Provide 10 pictures of different people and describe them at the back. Each student will pick a card and will read the description to the class.This may be so simple compared to other fluency activities. So this is best applied if you want to have a break from too much exciting games.

Room Reading

Post reading materials around the room. During break time, the students can roam around the room and read their selected materials. This is a good way to practice fluency without assistance from other people. Replace the reading materials regularly, say a month, so they won’t be so boring for the students.

With these fun fluency activities, the students will surely have a reason to learn better reading and comprehension without getting bored.

Including fluency activities in reading lessons will dramatically improve the student’s skill.

Practicing reading is, of course, the key to becoming better and better. But with activities to improve fluency, reading will get better.

There are many activities for each students capabilities that will help them improve. You can always make up your own fluency activities. But it will be better if you know some of the strategies to do so:

Phrasing. This strategy helps the student to group related words together before pausing so that the text will be given better meaning. Most beginners will read word per word but with phrasing,they will learn how to give the piece better meaning.

Assisted Reading. The teacher has to be with the student if this strategy will be used.This will provide the student with sufficient support while he is building his own fluency.The technique is usually reading along with the teacher or following how the teacher read a group of words.

Rereading. Research reveals that this strategy is one of the best for fluency activities. It is done by reviewing a familiar text so that the student will already have a good idea on how to fluently read it.

Expressing. With this strategy, the student will first look at the entire text. And then, he will look at the text piece by piece. He will be able to understand the piece better with that. And finally, he will apply the pieces back to one whole.

Pacing. This strategy develops the reader’s comprehension of the text by reading fast or slow, depending on how speedily he understands it.

Students who continually practice these fluency activities improve drastically.

As always, the goal of fluency activities is to help the students be better at reading. By knowing the strategies above, you can come up with fluency activities based on the kind of strategy that you want to use.