Each reading lesson, we incorporate some reading fluency. This allows the children to see the same short text all week and allows them to feel familiar and comfortable with it. Over a half term we provide a wide range of texts from poems to non-fiction. Fluency takes on the same structure each week. The teacher reads the text aloud on the first day whilst the children track the words. The following day we echo read. This is where the children echo back a line at a time. As the children become more familiar with the text, they read with a partner and then finally aloud to themselves. These sessions see children’s fluency increase and their knowledge of vocabulary also develop.
The text we’ve been reading this week links to topic and is all about interpolation.
Help at home: Get your child to read the text aloud to you. See how fluent they are!
