Determining Fluency Level

Determining the fluency level of your student is helpful when trying to assess what they understand. Their are 3 levels of fluency, Emergent, Beginning, and Fluent.

• Emergent stage children are just beginning to show interest in books and they pretend to read. They can reread a book they are familiar with and recognize 5-20 words. In writing they know the difference between writing and drawing. They can write their first and last name and write letter like forms on their paper.
• Beginning stage is when students can identify letter names and sounds. They can recognize 20-100 high frequency words and can make predictions. They self-correct, read orally and make text-to-self and text-to world connections.
• Fluent stage children can identify most words automatically and read with expression. Recognize 100-300 high frequency words and read with expression. Can make inferences. Write drafts and final copies, write more than one paragraphs, can indent, spell most 100 high frequency words and use correct punctuation marks.