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Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE

November 6, 2014 By 2 Comments

If you’re like me, then you check off  Dolch words via a standard sheet for each student.  You know the one, the one with columns and rows full of sight words and HFW!  Nothing wrong with it, these kinds of sheets have served me well over many years but…. I wanted, needed a new way of doing things, a way that also integrated fluency!
Year after year I have either highlighted or checked off words that students know.  They would sit beside me and read the words, one by one.
I wanted to be able to still do this but also focus on fluency.  When it comes to reading sight words, common words, or high frequency words (HFW) we want our students to be able to recognize and recall words as quickly as possible. This is known as rate, we need them to also read with accuracy and volume.
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE
I know that children learn best with games, so incorporating a game whilst assessing sight words and HFW knowledge was a no brainer!  Well maybe it isn’t, it’s taken me 14 years to realize it!

Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
The bundle!  you save more than 30% when you purchase the bundle.   It’s great to have for the different reading levels in your class AND for when you move grades!
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
I have made a set of games for all Dolch words (available as a bundle and also separately, click image above).  I have included all five sets in one bundle;  Track my Reading Fluency Assessment Games: The BUNDLE Pre-Primer to Grade 3

There are six games (see above images) for each level (in color and black and white) with 2 record sheets for students to complete after playing their game(s).

Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom

 

Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom

 

Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
These record sheets are all found in the bundle.
The same format is used for each game.  But how do children play?  How is this focusing on fluency and assessment?  It’s simple, students are timed as they read their Dolch words.  The teacher can do this one on one (it works best this way).  The child can have three turns or if you only have time for one round per session, that’s fine too.
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
You can use a timer or your iphone to time each round.
A class tracking sheet has also been provided for you to document where everyone else is.
Your students can also test each other by timing each other as they move around the board, they won’t even know they are improving fluency.
Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE Clever Classroom
You do not have to make this competitive at all, in fact, this is not the objective.  Students work to better their own times over a period of weeks and months.

I have just added the Dolch Tracking Assessment Games and Dolch Word Wall as one COMBO file, to save you a few dollars.

Dolch Word Wall and Track my Reading Fluency Assessment Games COMBO

I love using YouTube videos, especially to teach sight words and high frequency words.

Before using our tracking games, you might like to use the playlist I have on YouTube with a range of Dolch videos.   They’re just flash card type of videos but repetition is everything when it comes to learning sight words.   Click on the images to see the playlist on YouTube.

Tracking Reading Fluency with Games and a FREEBIE plus Dolch YouTube videos

Thanks you to Kimberly Geswein Fonts and Melonheadz Illustrating used in the banners.

YouTube Dolch Words playlist via Clever Classroom

To help students learn their core words, you might like to print off the free Dolch word lists for Pre-Primer through to Grade Three.

Free Dolch Words via Clever Classroom

I like to display the words and I also have copies in my literacy box with my core supplies.  You could send lists home at the beginning of the year.

Free download: Pre-primer, Primer, Grade One, Grade two and Grade Three Dolch lists

Oh and the free posters come in both color and black and white.

Click on the image below to download your freebie.

Free PDFdownload: Pre-primer, Primer, Grade One, Grade two and Grade Three Dolch lists

I hope all of these resources go to helping your students learn their Dolch words this year.

For more Dolch resources, see our store category.

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  1. Jennifer Ayers says

    November 7, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    These look great! You are so smart!!!

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  2. Amy Jordan says

    November 9, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    I just bought your bundle!! My struggling readers are having a difficult time with sight words this year. I hope this will help them!!! Thanks so much for creating this great resource!

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