How fluent are you?

When is the last time you listened to yourself read? Why should students listen to themselves read? Over the last few weeks several classes at JGES learned about the different components of fluency, how fluency impacts reading comprehension, and how to self-assess their fluency.

For our purposes we broke fluency down into four areas - accuracy, speed, expression, and punctuation. After practicing what each component sounded like, students used the app Seesaw to record themselves orally reading a piece of text. Afterwards, students listened to the recording and assessed themselves on each of the four focus areas. Based on their self-assessments, each student set a goal that he will focus on over the next several weeks before repeating the process. 

Students using Seesaw to record a reader's theater

A student self assesses her fluency