Reading Fluency Activities

A teacher was working with her students who had some problems with reading fluency. The problem was the children couldn’t compare how they read a story with how an adult reads the same story. When children read a story, they cannot really hear how they read. When they hear other children read, they hear their problems but don’t necessarily relate those problems to their own. When they hear an adult read a story, it sounds great but hearing it doesn’t help them develop their own reading fluency. To help solve this problem, I showed the child an interactive e-Book on the computer.


The e-Book is an electronic version of a children’s picture book. They can view the book in “presentation” mode, with the book being read and the pages automatically turned. Or they can view the book in “manual” mode, where they turn the pages at their own pace. Most importantly, the children can record their own version of the book and compare their version with the adult reading the same story. And they can do this over and over again until they are happy with their version.

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