Activities for Fluency, Grades 5-6

Develop fluent, confident readers! Each lesson includes a piece of nonfiction, short fiction, script, song, poem, or riddle. Follow-up activities help readers with unfamiliar words and punctuation marks. Students also learn about stressed and unstressed syllables, breathing patterns in reading aloud, suffixes, prefixes, root words, inflection, and reading with emotion. The activities include: Crossword puzzles Word searches Question and answer Bingo Classroom games Each section includes a fluency report card to help assess students' rate of reading, accuracy, and tone.