Beth Kusar, Wesleyan College
Paper: E
Sheraton Compagno
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between fluency and oral reading activities such as choral reading and paired reading through poetry and reader’s theatre. Poetry through choral and paired reading was used to measure fluency in third grade students. Reader’s theatre was also used to measure fluency in the same group of students. Fluency often gets pushed to the side with reading curriculum in today’s classroom and this study shows the effects fluency has on all other elements of reading. This study focuses on accuracy, reading rate, and expression all being essential parts of reading fluency. The findings conclude that with the implementation of these reading activities in the classroom, fluency does increase.