ALL ABOUT READING

Developed in 1994 by Rasinski, Padak, Linek, & Sturtevant

What: FDL are daily 10-15 minutes lessons that integrate several of the principals of effective fluency instruction within a lesson: modeling of fluent reading, oral support for students as they read, practicing repeated readings of a text, and focusing on specific prosodic elements while reading. 

Who: all grade levels

When: It is a strategy that is considered a stand-alone strategy. However, if done as part of a reading text lesson it would generally be considered a during-reading strategy.

How: 

- select text (50-200 words) and in any format (poetry, charts, short stories)

- provide a copy to all students

- read passage aloud fluently

- discuss passage and with the help of the students point out places in the text where it was read differently (louder, slower, etc)

- teacher rereads the passage with students paying attention to the identified "fluency points"

- students read the text with the teacher trying to mimic his/her reading (variety of forms: choral, echo, etc)

- students work with a partner and practice reading with one another providing appropriate support, encouragement, and feedback