•• TEACHING

T E A C H I N G THE
THE BRAIN
BR AIN TO
TO READ
READ •• ­

NTERVENTIONS FOR
IINTERVENTIONS FOR READING
READING F LUENCY ­

FLUENCY
Grade 3+
Grade 3+
11 PRACTICE
PRACTICE
PRACTICE 2 SPOT
SPOT
Practice rapid naming of familiar Teach students to spot
words using flashcards, word compound words.
walls, or speed drills. 

3 LOCATE
LOCATE 4 TEAM
TEAM 5 MODEL
MODEL
Locate all high frequency words Team up
Assign reading
in a passage and highlight students to take
buddies from
them to encourage rapid word turns reading
recognition.
passages. upper grades
to model fluent
6 RECORD
RECORD 7 ACT
ACT
reading.

Record reading to Have students act out

allow students to self­ scenes from a play to

practice reading smoothly

monitor and try to
and with expression.

beat previous
accuracy and time
results.
8 GUIDE
GUIDE

Guide groups in oral reading
using plays, nursery rhymes, or
poetry in rounds.

9 MAD
MAD MINUTE
MINUTE 10 WORD
WORD PAIRS
PAIRS
Increase the number of words Use flash cards

TD @school
read over a specific time period,
using one minute reading
to improve rapid
recognition of
probes and recording and similar word
tracking results. pairs (ie. bit/bite).