Jamestown's Reading Fluency series, a research-based approach to increasing fluency, can help students become more fluent readers. Students work in pairs and, at comfortable levels, practice reading aloud smoothly, accurately, and expressively. One student reads aloud a narrative fiction or nonfiction passage from the non-consumable Reader. A partner uses the consumable Reader's Record, marking errors and scoring the oral reading. Repeated readings encourage students to improve their fluency.
The passages in this book are taken from the following sources.
"The King of Mazy May" by Jack London
"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" by William Saroyan
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie by Andrea Warren
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman
"The Horse of the Sword" by Manuel Buaken
"The Drover's Wife" by Henry Lawson
A Fighter for Justice
Living up the Street by Gary Soto
My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear
The Dolphins and Me by Don C. Reed
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Raven and the Haida People
First in Their Hearts: A Biography of George Washington by Thomas Fleming
A Monument to America
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
What Is Art?
Smashing the Land Speed Record
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Making Headlines: A Biography of Nellie Bly by Kathy Lynn Emerson
"The Stone and the Cross" by Ciro Alegría
"Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing
"Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Hiding to Survive by Maxine B. Rosenberg
Winston Churchill's School Days
"Neighbor Rosicky" by Willa Cather
"The Old Demon" by Pearl S. Buck
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
Working on the Road
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
"Another April" by Jesse Stuart
Father David's Deer
Growing Up by Russell Baker
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Close Call
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Bouqui and Lapin, a Cajun Tale
Fingers of Discovery
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
"The Rockpile" by James Baldwin
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Lob's Girl" by Joan Aiken
"My Fights with Jack Dempsey" by Gene Tunney
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz
"Bad Influence" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Tortuga by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Koko's Kitten
Hawaiian Hurricane
Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman
Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
"The Force of Luck" retold by Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Eddystone Lighthouse
"With All Flags Flying" by Anne Tyler
A Silent Army of Clay
"Sucker" by Carson McCullers
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
"Jane Addams" by William Jay Jacobs
The Sky Is Falling!
"Uncle Tony's Goat" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Milk: The Fight for Purity by James Cross Giblin
"Caught by a Hair-String" retold by Donna Rosenberg
What Is Black Lung?
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin
Needles That Cure by Henry and Melissa Billings
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