Considering the context and texts for fluency: Performance, readers theater, and poetry

Abstract

This article describes the importance of teaching reading fluency and all of its components, including automaticity and prosody. The authors explain how teachers can create a context for reading fluency instruction by engaging students in reading performance activities. To support the instructional contexts, the authors suggest particular text-types that are well-suited for reading fluency activities.

Keywords

• Reading fluency
• Text selection
• Performance reading