1st Grade Friends

Cold-Hot Reads

We will be doing a cold fluency read every Tuesday on a new passage. Your student will then practice this passage and he/she will be timed throughout the week to see how “hot” they can get on a passage. Over the remainder of the school year we will be tracking their progress on a graph. Students will then be able to see how much they have grown with their reading fluency.

To administer a timed read:

1.     Use your phone, kitchen timer, or an analog clock with a second hand to time your student for a minute. Make sure that there are no distractions.

2.     Say “Whenever you are ready, you may start” and then start the timer as soon as they start reading.

3.     Keep track of the number of errors that your student makes as they read. You can use your fingers or tally marks with paper and pencil. An error is when they skip a word, say a word incorrectly, or if you have to tell them the word after three seconds of them sounding it out/pausing. If a student corrects their mistake it does NOT count as an error. If a student skips a line, correct them and count it as one error.

4.     Once a minute us up, mark the spot where they have successfully read their last word. Count up the total amount of words that they read, subtract the number of errors, and find the total words per minute (wpm). We will be graphing this progress at school and will be adding to that graph at home later this year.

5.     By the end of the end of the week they should have make quite an improvement from their first time reading the passage. If they read the entire passage perfectly, with no errors, you can put a star on the paper. If they star their passage before the end of the week, then they are done with reading fluency for the week.

Cold-Hot Reads

We will be doing a cold fluency read every Tuesday on a new passage. Your student will then practice this passage and he/she will be timed throughout the week to see how “hot” they can get on a passage. Over the remainder of the school year we will be tracking their progress on a graph. Students will then be able to see how much they have grown with their reading fluency.

To administer a timed read:

1.     Use your phone, kitchen timer, or an analog clock with a second hand to time your student for a minute. Make sure that there are no distractions.

2.     Say “Whenever you are ready, you may start” and then start the timer as soon as they start reading.

3.     Keep track of the number of errors that your student makes as they read. You can use your fingers or tally marks with paper and pencil. An error is when they skip a word, say a word incorrectly, or if you have to tell them the word after three seconds of them sounding it out/pausing. If a student corrects their mistake it does NOT count as an error. If a student skips a line, correct them and count it as one error.

4.     Once a minute us up, mark the spot where they have successfully read their last word. Count up the total amount of words that they read, subtract the number of errors, and find the total words per minute (wpm). We will be graphing this progress at school and will be adding to that graph at home later this year.

5.     By the end of the end of the week they should have make quite an improvement from their first time reading the passage. If they read the entire passage perfectly, with no errors, you can put a star on the paper. If they star their passage before the end of the week, then they are done with reading fluency for the week.