Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ® | Science of Reading for Teachers Top Fluency Strategies Teachers Love from K–8 Classrooms
Feb 20, 2026
Emily Jaskowski, an eighth-grade teacher who created tiered small-group fluency protocols. Aaron Grossman, an upper-elementary teacher with a five-day Readers' Theater routine. Lindsay Kemeny, a second-grade teacher who uses partner reading and paragraph-shrinking to track gains. Virginia Quinn-Mooney, a first-grade teacher who blends songs, read-alouds, and shared reading. They discuss classroom-tested strategies for building accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
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Build Fluency With Modeled And Partner Practice
- Teach fluency explicitly through read-alouds, echo reading, and paired practice so students hear and practice prosody.
- Use decodables after explicit phonics instruction and model fluent reading before students read aloud.
Script Partner Reading Expectations
- Teach clear partner-reading routines and model expected voices for punctuation and prosody.
- Train partners to point to words and use an error-correction routine when stuck.
Use Paragraph-Shrinking With Intentional Pairing
- Use partner reading paragraph-shrinking with timed turns and listening previews to boost fluency quickly.
- Intentionally pair students by fluency level and monitor data to adjust partners.
