Fluency Podcasts
Grade 1 and Grade 2 Benchmarks

What is Reading Fluency?
Fluency is the ability to decode words or text smoothly with little effort so that the reader can focus on making sense and responding to the text. Components of fluency are phrasing, attention to punctuation, reading rate, expression, problem solving and self-correcting. Fluent reading is smooth reading and sounds like you are talking.

Why is Fluency Important?
Fluency is linked with comprehension because to read text fluently the reader has to understand what is being read. Also, when reading fluently, the reader frees up his/her brain to think about the story.

Fluency Podcast Samples

Below, you will find links to podcast samples that demonstrate proficient fluency. Please click on the link to hear the samples.

Grade 1
Level 10 Examples of Proficient Fluency:  (January Benchmark)

Sample 1: Phillips, Joan. My New Boy. New York: Randon House, 1986.
Sample 2: Ward, Cindy, and Tomie DePaola. Cookie’s Week. New York: Scholastic, 1988.

Grade 2
Level 24 Examples of Proficient Fluency : (January Benchmark)
 
Sample 1: Burton, Virginia Lee. Katy and the Big Snow. New York: Scholastic, 1971.
Sample 2: Cushman, Doug. Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery. New York: Harper Trophy, 1987.