Boosting Oral Reading Fluency: Next Steps for Success!

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When students flag on the Oral Reading Fluency assessment (ORF), it often signals challenges with word recognition, decoding, or phrasing, which can hinder overall fluency. Specific high-leverage strategies can help improve accuracy and automaticity, enabling students to build fluency, boost confidence, and achieve greater reading success. 

Goals

  • Discover actionable steps for identifying the area of need within fluency; accuracy, automaticity, and/or prosody. 
  • Gain high-leverage routines to focus on accuracy and automaticity within word recognition and decoding to boost students’ oral reading fluency.
  • Support Student Success: Walk away with a clear plan to help support students' reading success.

Structure & Schedule

2-Day Workshop

Focus of the Workshop: (outcomes)

  • Practical, Ready-to-Use Strategies:  Participants will gain hands-on, research-backed strategies for improving word recognition, prosody, and fluency.
  • Data-Driven Instruction:  Educators will learn to analyze student performance on ORF and word recognition assessments to target their teaching more effectively.
  • Improved Student Reading Outcomes:  Educators will leave with a clear understanding of how to address both word recognition and fluency issues.
Increased Confidence in Teaching Fluency:  Educators will gain practical skills to help students improve their reading fluency, leading to greater confidence in their ability to teach reading effectively.

Who Would Benefit

  • Grades 1-3 Classroom Teachers

  • Interventionists

  • Special Education Teachers

  • Coaches

  • Instructional leaders

  • District/Building Leader

  • School Psychologists

  • Special Education Directors



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