Secondary Literacy Guide

Building Fluency Routines

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Routine

Overview

Steps

1. ​ Prepare 2. ​ Explain 3. ​ Read 4. ​ Monitor

Read aloud the text and omit words while students follow along silently and chime in chorally with the missing words.

Oral Cloze 1

Read aloud the text, increase the pace slightly, and omit different words.

Repeat steps above, but increase the pace.

Oral Cloze 2

1. ​ Preview 2. ​ Ask 3. ​ Read 4. ​ Review 1. ​ Explain 2. ​ Practice 3. ​ Read 1. ​ Explain 2. ​ Partner 3. ​ Direct 4. ​ Monitor 1. ​ Explain 2. ​ Assign 3. ​ Monitor 4. ​ Review

Assign an active reading question or task, read aloud as students follow along silently, and partner students to discuss responses. Read a poem, a short text, or a chunk of a longer text out loud together with students. Students read the text three times: once silently to choose words to omit, once aloud to their partner, and once following along and chiming in with the words their partner leaves out.

Modeled Fluent Reading

Choral Reading

Partner Cloze

Students read a text silently while actively looking for information to respond to a focused question or task.

Independent Reading

Last Updated April 14, 2025 ​

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