Fluency Tutor

Introducing Fluency Tutor

One of the key indicators for a child's future success in learning is their mastery of reading, and their fluency while reading. What happens when a student isn't able to become a fluent reader early in their education? Research shows that "non-fluent" readers will be unable to relate sentences to the global context of the passage, thereby inhibiting their comprehension of what is being read (NCES & NAEP, 2002).

That's where Fluency Tutor comes in.

• A personalized school website with separate and distinct sections for Administrator, Teacher, and Student
• Student practice area for guided, supported, repeated reading
• Teacher section for assigning, listening to, and scoring student assessments
• Graphical reports to show student progress, fluency measurement, error analysis, lexile performance, and problem words
• Publishers can provide content for reading passages ranked by lexile level for appropriate assignment

Incorporating passages that align to MetaMetrics Lexile Framework for Reading, the product includes tools for practicing, assessing, and measuring fluency. Using the data from Fluency Tutor's powerful graphical reports, teachers can personalize instruction to individual students' needs and students can see where they need to focus in order to improve their oral reading fluency skills. Fluency Tutor helps solve the dilemma of how to provide adequate time for reading fluency development instruction with ever-increasing class sizes and demands upon educators' time.The software is applicable for all students developing reading fluency, primarily children from 5 to 12 years of age.

Supported, repeated, guided oral reading has consistently been found by educational researchers as the best method for improving fluency in children.

Fluency Tutor is not confined to use only in the classroom. Students can log in from school or from home to practice and record assessments and teachers can listen to students' recorded passages and assess them at their convenience, at school or at home, when time allows. Fluency Tutor allows teachers and students to focus their time during the school day on instruction rather than on repeated reading practice and 1:1 assessment.

Find out More!

• Scholastic Administrator's Interview with Mark McCusker
• Interview with Martin McKay introducing Fluency Tutor