Fluency Assessments - Important!

I attended a Curriculum Lead Teacher meeting this morning at Riverside. One of the main topics was the fluency assessments that are being rolled out in May. Here is a draft of the announcement you will receive in a few days.


We also received this sheet, titled "Quick Tips for Fluency Practice"


And this handout on Reader's Theater




We also received some materials related to fluency. Julie and Anne presented information to help us develop our own fluency materials for next year. These handouts will help us to determine grade level appropriateness.

They gave us a cool tool which lists the selections from the McDougall Littell textbooks, along with their Lexile scores, Dale-Chall scores, and DRP scores. That way, we can figure out if a piece is too difficult to use as a fluency activity.

In order to help us understand what each number means, they also distributed handouts which can be found at the following websites:

• The Dale-Chall list of the most commonly used words in the English language.
• The Fry graph for estimating reading ages, as well as the Fry Readability Formula description.
• The DRP test from the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade McD-Lt textbook (they're all the same!)

I have a copy of the textbook selections in my room. Anne is going to be emailing a .pdf document, and when I receive that, I'll make it available here.