Oral Reading Fluency Assessments

EMC’s Mirrors & Windows Assessment Guide provides Oral Reading Fluency Assessments in response to the increasing demand for this type of evaluation tool, especially at the high school level. The relationship between reading fluency and comprehension has been well documented.

In the Assessment Guide, two passages are provided for each unit in all grade levels of the Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature program. Each passage contains material from the corresponding unit in the Student Edition, whether it is from a literary selection or instructional material. Each passage is considered moderate in difficulty and is about two hundred words long.

Step-by-step guidelines explain how to administer the assessments as well as evaluate and score the student’s performance. The Detailed Reading Fluency Rubric describes each of the categories that are used to measure students’ skill in reading the passages.

The goal of reading fluency assessment is to encourage and chart student progress. A master Reading Fluency Progress Graph is provided to help you accomplish that goal. A copy of the graph can be used to chart an individual student’s scores for multiple readings of the assessment passages. Following each assessment, you can also document the types of errors a student made in a Reading Fluency Error Chart. The student can then review the results and practice to remedy the identified errors. A master Reading Fluency Error Chart is supplied for this purpose.

Additional oral fluency activities can be found at http://www.mirrorsandwindows.com/. Mirrors & Windows supplies all the tools you need to assess and monitor your students’ oral reading fluency!