Reading Rate Improvement

Purpose: To help students increase their reading fluency by getting them away from reading word-by-word

Preparation time:  10 minutes

Materials:  Copies of a reading passage

Preparation: Choose a reading passage that is at the student’s independent reading level

Procedure:

1. Pass out the reading passages. Give students 1 minute to read as much of the text as they can.  
2. After a minute, tell them to stop and write the number “1” by where they stopped in the text.
3. Have the students return to the beginning of the passage and read again for another minute.
4. After the second minute, have them write the number “2” where they stopped.
5. Repeat the procedure a third and fourth time. Each time, have the students record the number (1, 2, 3 or 4) so that comparisons can be made.
6. Talk about the importance of reading fluently.