Many children with learning disabilities have weak reading fluency. The speed at which your elementary-aged child reads age-appropriate texts can make or break his/her ability to comprehend what is read and certainly hinder self-esteem. Here are some tips for improving reading fluency at home.
There are also individualized curriculums and programs that can help improve reading fluency at home. I suggest One Minute Reader (www.oneminutereader.com). This program has all the materials you'll need to support your child's reading fluency at home.
- Choose a text of 100 words that the child can accurately read (at least 90% accuracy rate). First, instruct the child to read aloud and time the child for one minute. Record how many accurate words per minute the child read. Secondly, read the text with the child. It is always a good idea to demonstrate appropriate fluency as you read with the child including stoping at punctuation and using voice inflation when appropriate. Third, instruct the child to read the text another time. Again, time for one minute and record the correct words read per minute. Then you can show the child the results. Hopefully the child will see the improvement!
- Choose 10 words that you want to target for improved fluency. This can be sight words or words from a phonetic word family/syllable type. Write the words down on separate small notecards. This will be the word pile. Then make a game board by writing the words in any particular order in two columns (5 in each column). Write the word "start" at the bottom of the first column and the word "end" at the bottom of the second column. Find some type of marker such as a penny or game board marker and place it on "start." Tell the child to read aloud the first word (right above "start"). Then tell the child he/she is to locate this word in the word pile. The child will then read the words on the notecards until he/she finds the card with the word on it and then move the marker up one space to the word on the game board. Continue with play until you get to the "end." After each turn make sure you shuffle the word cards. This will give the child opporunities to read the words frequently.
There are also individualized curriculums and programs that can help improve reading fluency at home. I suggest One Minute Reader (www.oneminutereader.com). This program has all the materials you'll need to support your child's reading fluency at home.
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