Fluency is one thing you’ll want to begin focusing on early in the school year. My Fall Reading Passages for Kindergarten 1st and 2nd Grade are the perfect way to add fluency practice into your daily routine. While the goal with using these fall reading passages is to build fluency skills, students will be completing repeated readings of each passage. Your Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grade students will enjoy reading the fall reading passages a few times as the relatable topics are engaging for readers! Continue reading to learn more about the newest fluency passages you need to add to your classroom this fall. These fall reading passages will absolutely become a staple part of your routine in September, October, and November!
Using Fall Reading Passages for Fluency
There are so many benefits to using fall reading passages for fluency. As the school year has gotten underway, you may have quickly noticed students struggling with: word decoding in context, super slow paced reading, robot reading that lacks expression, or a complete lack of comprehension? These are all common problems readers face that have to do with fluency. So, using fall reading passages for fluency will help you address these problem areas your students are facing.
Fluency encompasses a lot. It is NOT just reading accurately and at a good pace. It is also all about comprehension! Sometimes you’ll find students who struggle with just one aspect of fluent reading- and others struggle with every single part. One way you can focus on all aspects of fluency is by using my fall reading passages for fluency!
Whether you grab the individual grade level fall reading passages for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade, or decide to get the Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade Bundle, you’ll have fluency passages ready to use all fall.
Adding Fluency Passages to your Daily Routine
You may be wondering how to go about adding fluency passages to your daily routine. Oftentimes it is hard to figure out how you can focus on all the things within your literacy block, or daily schedule. But the good news is that my passages are set up so you can print and use them right away! You will just need to decide if you want to put these fall reading passages in a folder, binder, notebook, or simply just make copies whenever students are using them. Otherwise, there is minimal prep on your part. Simply figure out which one of the times of day below would work best for you and your students for adding fluency passages to your daily routine!
How to fit in these Fall Reading Passages:
- Make it one of your students’ daily morning work activities.
- Start small groups with reading fluency time for 1-2 minutes.
- Include a fluency center as a daily rotation.
- Send home for practice- parents LOVE these!
Does this sound doable to you? Are you feeling ready to start using fluency passages in your classroom? Ready to add some new fall reading passages into your rotation? Check out these additional tips for working on fluency in your classroom!
3 Additional Tips for Working on Fluency:
1. Students need to be reading a text that is just right for them!
- It can’t be too easy or they will just rush through it.
- It can’t be too hard because then they will go too slowly as they have to work harder to decode each word.
- Choose a passage that is best for each reader! (This is where the Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade Bundle is extra helpful!)
2. Practicing for a few minutes every day makes a huge difference.
- Use the suggested times above to make this happen!
3. Model fluent reading as often as you can throughout your day!
- Your students want to be just like YOU! Show them what it means to read fluently whenever you read a text from your curriculum and when you’re reading just for fun to them.
- Explain how your reading sounds fluent and ask them to copy you!
Highlights of the Fall Reading Passages for Fluency
Fluency is such an important skill to work on, and assess, as it helps many literacy skills, including comprehension. You’ll find that through the use of these fall reading passages you’re helping your students develop their fluent reading skills, in a non intimidating way.
Thousands of teachers have used and loved my original timed fluency passages and decodable reading fluency passages, but you may be unfamiliar with my fluency passages.
Here are a few highlights of these new fall reading passages for fluency:
- Students will grab out a fall fluency passage and practice reading it three times.
- They can then read it one-on-one with you for a quick informal assessment.
- You can use these in small groups, in a fluency center, for independent reading time, or to send home!
- A color copy and a black & white copy is included, as well as comprehension questions for each passage.
- A recording page is included for each passage as well for the one-on-one assessment.
- Answer key + student data tracking page also included!
If you know you want to work on fluency and need a system that will make it easy for students to work on:
- accuracy
- natural pace
- comprehension
These fall reading passages are for you! Your readers will be engaged and focused on fluency all fall long. Just imagine the progress you’ll see between the start of the school year and the end of fall! These fall reading passages will help the progress be so noticeable!
More Activities to Practice Reading Fluency
Grab my free Fall Phonics Game and Fluency Activities! These fluency activities are very simple to use. You will just print the phonics game and fluency pages which include isolated words, sentences, and short reading passages. The focus of these fluency pages and phonics game is CVC words. You’ll be able to use them with your early readers who are working on decoding short vowel words and reading high frequency words, all fall. You can also read more about these Phonics Games and Activities!
If you’re looking for even more ways to practice fluency with your Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade students, in the fall, check out these Free Reading Fluency Passages and Activities. All of these activities will help your students become more fluent readers!
