15 fun and easy fluency practice activities to get your K-1 students reading at a just-right pace, with accuracy and expression!

How to teach reading fluency in upper elementary. Your struggling readers will love the consistency of this fluency routine. Repeated readings of these fun sentences with high frequency sight words will have your students reading fluently with expression in no time! Chart student progress and watch them grow!

The best way for disfluent readers to become fluent is by reading! These students need to focus on ACCURATE text reading, use decodable text, repeated readings, systemic daily practice of reading words accurately, modeling of fluent reading and encouraging students to read like they are talking. Students need LOTS of opportunities to read text (at their level) using choral, cloze, echo and partner reading. These are great fluency strategies are for interventions. #fluency #fluencystrategies

We all know that students need multiple opportunities to decode phonics patterns in order to build fluency. This roll and read fluency activity is a fun and engaging way to help students receive additional practice with various phonics patterns. Check out the post to see how I use roll and read fluency in my classroom.

These free fluency passages are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students to practice decoding, comprehension, and literacy skills.

Decodable reading passages are a great resource for developing strong reading skills and supporting reading comprehension. There are many ways to use phonics passages. I’ve written a blog post explaining 5 easy ways to use them for small group instruction, in literacy centers, for fluency practice, vocabulary building, and more! Download a FREE set of decodable passages in this post to get started!

In kindergarten and first grade, we have poetry folders that we use for fluency practice. A while back, I blogged about my routine for poetry folders in

Take a closer look at engaging fluency practice with this free ocean fluency activity sample. Themed fluency practice activities can help fluency skills.

A phonics-based fluency folder is an all-in-one place for students to work on their fluency and reading skills!

Discover 8 free fluency downloads to boost reading skills and tips for creating fluency folders for practice.