Blumberg Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education
Project for responsive educational systems
online evidence-based intervention resources
Reading: Fluency
All Levels
Literature review of fluency interventions and implementation strategies from the Pennsylvania Department of Education
Fluency: A Review of Developmental and Remedial Practices
Includes intervention strategies and research support from the University of Georgia
A Focus on Fluency Instruction
Reading fluency discussion and interventions from
the Division for Learning
Disabilities (DLD) and Division for Research (DR) of the Council for
Exceptional Children
Intervention Strategies: Fluency
Identifies specific strategies for certain student difficulties
Reading Fluency Assessment and Instruction: What, Why, and How?
Instructional methods primarily focused on rate and accuracy from The Reading Teacher (pages 708-712)
Provides teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to provide effective reading interventions for students who struggle with reading fluently
Techniques to Promote Reading
Fluency
Four fluency intervention strategies from The Savvy Teacher’s Guide: Reading Interventions That Work p. 13-19
Elementary Focus
Error Correction and Word Drill Techniques
Several error-correction techniques and one procedure for vocabulary drill-and-practice that teachers, tutors, and parents can use with developing readers (primary)
Using phrased-text cues to improve reading fluency (elementary)
Increasing Reading Fluency through Student-Directed Repeated Reading and Feedback
Research project from the
California School Psychologist (elementary)
Intensive Intervention in Reading Fluency for At-Risk Beginning Spanish
Readers
Research
using Read Naturally with first and second grade Spanish/English
bilingual classrooms (primary ELL)
The Intervention Inventory:
Fluency Interventions
Multiple examples and links for fluency interventions (elementary)
Six strategies to improve reading fluency (elementary)
RTI Reading Tool Kit for Lincoln Public Schools
Prepared by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with individual and group strategies (elementary)
Wakefield, NE, Educational
Service Unit RTI Reading Interventions
Offers tiered interventions for reading fluency
Secondary Focus
Decoding and Fluency: Foundation Skills for Struggling Older Readers
Report from the Council for Learning Disabilities that includes strategies for improving reading fluency for secondary students (secondary)
Strategies for bridging the gap between word recognition and comprehension
Rethinking Reading Fluency for Struggling Adolescent Readers
Strategies
for improving reading fluency for at-risk secondary students (secondary)