Fluency Clause Samples

Fluency. In order to ensure that all students are fluent, they will be encouraged to read aloud and be read to daily by parents/teachers to increase their decoding abilities and fluency rates. Read-alouds, direct reading instruction, and independent reading all work to shore up student fluency. UPA will test all students’ fluency on a regular basis in the primary years. Fluency is taught through adult modeling and student practicing. As children are learning to decode in kindergarten, an read-alouds are a critical component of their progression as readers. Every day at United Preparatory Academy begins with a read-aloud and includes additional read- alouds during literacy blocks and infused within curricula areas like science, social studies, and character education.

Fluency. A fluency impairment is defined as the abnormal flow of verbal expression. It is characterized by impaired rate and rhythm of connected speech and may be accompanied by struggle behavior. Consideration must be given to the student’s chronological age and perception of the problem by the student and parents, the contextual situations in which the student functions and the overall impact on educational performance A student is not eligible for special education and related services in the area of speech or language (fluency) impairment when dysfluencies:

Fluency. In order to ensure all the school readers are fluent, students will be encthe schoolaged to read aloud and be read to daily by parents/teachers to increase their decoding ability and fluency rate. Read-alouds, direct reading instruction, and independent reading all work to increase student fluency. UPA will test all students’ fluency on a regular basis in the primary years to ensure students are progressing. Fluency is taught through adult modeling and student practicing. In Kindergarten, as children are learning to decode, an important aspect to becoming strong readers is having access to engaging read alouds. Read alouds are a core component of the UPrep literacy program. Every day at United Preparatory Academy begins with a read aloud and includes additional read alouds during literacy blocks and infused within curricula areas like Science, Social Studies, and Character Education. Vocabulary Embedded in the Open Cthe schoolt and Reading Mastery programs are strong vocabulary strands, and UPrep teachers will use these programs to build the vocabulary skills of the school students Students will have independent reading time. UPA will utilize a leveled library system to ensure students are reading books at their appropriate reading levels. A leveled library is a system for coding books by reading level, e.g., levels A, B, or C is a Kindergarten reading book. The leveling system is based on text analysis and language characteristics. Using this system, teachers will assess students reading ability and help students choose appropriate books at “their just right reading level.” Teachers will model comprehension strategies at the start of minilessons and students will utilize these strategies during their independent reading time. Comprehension United Preparatory Academy teachers will build student comprehension skills in two different ways. First, through the study of literature (each grade level reads a mix of fiction and nonfiction), teachers will develop students’ comprehension skills that meet the Common Core Standards using these texts. A standards-based novel unit creation tool aids teachers in developing standards-based questions for novels, and teachers share this base of top-quality units with each other as part of regular professional development and common planning time. In addition to building comprehension through literature, students will learn to deeply analyze text. Using shorter pieces of primarily poetry and nonfiction, students will learn t...

Fluency. The applicant produces stretches of language at an appropriate tempo. There may be occasional loss of fluency on transition from rehearsed or formulaic speech to spontaneous interaction, but this does not prevent effective communication. The applicant can make limited use of discourse markers or connectors. Fillers are not distracting.

Fluency. In order to ensure all the school readers are fluent, students will be encouraged to read aloud and be read to daily by parents and teachers to increase their decoding ability and fluency rate. Read- alouds, direct reading instruction, and independent reading all work to increase student fluency. UPAE will test all students’ fluency on a regular basis in the primary years to ensure that students are progressing. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ is taught through adult modeling and student practicing. In Kindergarten, as children are learning to decode, an important aspect to becoming strong readers is having access to engaging read-alouds. Read-alouds are a core component of the UPAE literacy program. Every day at UPAE begins with a read-aloud and includes additional both read-alouds occuring during literacy blocks and infused within curricula areas such as science, social studies, and character education.