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.
Undying Glory by Clinton Cox
"Waiting" by Budge Wilson
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep
"Chee's Daughter" by Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
"Three Days to See" by Helen Keller
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor
On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
Walt Whitman by Catherine Reef
Elephant Art
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Natural Wonders of Bryce Canyon
"Dragon, Dragon" by John Gardner
Building a Giant
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain by Kathryn Lasky
Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
China Homecoming by Jean Fritz
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Heidi's Brush with Death
"The Medicine Bag" by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
"Broken Chain" by Gary Soto
"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
Cristina Sanchez, Bullfighter
"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
When Plague Strikes by James Cross Giblin
The Spirit Plate
"A Crush" by Cynthia Rylant
"Satchel Paige" by Bill Littlefield
"The Flat of the Land" by Diana Garcia
The Florida Skunk Ape
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"I See the Promised Land" by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Great Chicago Fire
Tim's Test
A Maker of Mobiles
"Sigurd the Volsung" retold by Donna Rosenberg
Not Just "a White Man's War"
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
"Hollywood and the Pits" by Cherylene Lee
"Miss Muriel" by Ann Petry
The Story of the U.S. Census
The Aeneid by Homer; retold by Donna Rosenberg
The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
"Country Girl" by Luis Tablanca
Passing the Buck
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Winter Thunder by Mari Sandoz
Operation Desert Fire
"The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud
"What Men Live by" by Leo Tolstoy
"Holiday" by Katherine Anne Porter
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman
Georgia O'Keeffe: Desert Artist
"Waltz of the Fat Man" by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter
Shane by Jack Schaefer
"A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean
Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Renoir
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Lincoln Highway
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
The American Dream
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