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Accelerating Student Learning: Monitoring Reading

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Oral Reading Fluency

• Provides formative assessment of student performance — an important outcome and indicator!
• Provides formative miscue analysis
• Allows teachers to assess qualitative features of good reading
• Allows for assessment of accuracy and fluency
• Includes predictive validity (e.g., first grade reading outcomes are strongly related to third grade outcomes)

• Materials Needed
• Unnumbered copy of passage (student copy)
• Numbered copy of passage (examiner copy)
• Stopwatch
• Pencil
• Colored Pencil (for indicating aimline on graphs)