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.