Teaching Fluency:
Selected Critical Skills in Fluency with Text

Letter-Sound Fluency:

Produces letter-sound correspondences (1 per second). (Grade 1)
Example: Given a set of letters, the student can produce the associated sound within one second.

Irregular Word Fluency:

Reads sight words automatically. (Grades 1 and 2)
Example: Given a set of irregular words in a set or in a passage, can identify words in 1 second or less.

Oral Reading Fluency:

Reads connected text fluently.
Example: By the end of grade 2, students should read 90-100 words per minute fluently.