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.
Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
Triumph on Ice: An Autobiography by Tara Lipinski as told to Emily Costello
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Stormy by Jim Kjelgaard
"By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benét
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
To Touch the Stars: A Story of World War II by Karen Zeinert
Women at War
The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday
A Place Called Ugly by Avi
Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson by Joan Elizabeth Goodman
The Coming of the Bear by Lensey Namioka
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Dorothea Lange: Life Through the Camera by Milton Meltzer
Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams
War of the Eagles by Eric Walters
"See How They Run" by George Harmon Coxe
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
The Leakeys: Uncovering the Origins of Humankind by Margaret Poynter
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
Ice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Ghost Ship in the Sky
Writer of the Plains: A Story About Willa Cather by Tom Streissguth
The Moon of the Deer by Jean Craighead George
A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee by Ted Wood, with Wanbli Numpa Afraid of Hawk
Carl Sandburg: Voice of the People by Ruth Franchere
Paisano, the Roadrunner by Jennifer Owings Dewey
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Moon of the Fox Pups by Jean Craighead George
Flood in Mozambique
The Blizzard of 1888
Doomed to Disaster: The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
Kirtland's Warbler
Knots in My Yo-yo String by Jerry Spinelli
Pueblo Storyteller by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
The Boxes by William Sleator
Conquering Niagara Falls
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Along the Dangerous Trail by Bill Gutman
Champion of Arbor Day: J. Sterling Morton by Sandy Beaty and J. L. Wilkerson
From Gathering to Growing
"A Mild Attack of Locusts" by Doris Lessing
Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida
China Homecoming by Jean Fritz
Poisonous Snakes by Seymour Simon
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush by Beverly Gherman
Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
Allan Pinkerton: First Private Eye by LaVere Anderson
The Beginning of Hang Gliding
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Spotting the Leopard by Anna Myers
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Bartholomew Fair by Mary Stolz
Typhoid Mary
Biography of a Kangaroo Rat by Barbara Steiner
Lost in the Maine Wilderness
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater
Magic or Not? by Edward Eager
My Fabulous New Life by Sheila Greenwald
Trapped in the Himalayas
Hotel for Dogs by Lois Duncan
A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich
Oh, the Places He Went: A Story about Dr. Seuss by Maryann N. Weidt
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Rescue Mission
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Fiddler with a Smile
Sweet America: An Immigrant's Story by Steven Kroll
Acknowledgments
