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FLUENCY RATES FOR READING (pdf)
Recommended
Fluency Rates*
(in words read correctly per minute) |
Grade K |
Grade 1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
Grade 6 |
Grade 7 |
Grade8 |
| ORAL |
N/A |
50-80 words correct per minute |
80-100 words correct per minute |
90-120 words correct per minute |
115-140 words correct per minutes |
125-150 words correct per minute |
135-160 words correct per minute |
140-175 words correct per minute |
150-180 words correct per minute |
| SILENT |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
115-140 |
130-175 |
160-200 |
190-220 |
215-245 |
235-250 |
*The following sources were referenced to determine fluency rates:
Caldwell, Reading Assessment, Guilford Press, 2002
Fountas and Pinnell, Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 2-6, Heinemann, 2001
Put Reading First, National Institute for Literacy, 2001
Lipson and Wixson, Assessment and Instruction of Reading and Writing Difficulty, Pearson Education, 2003
NAEP’s Scale for Assessing Oral Reading Fluency, 2001
*Fluency Chart for Reading came from the New England Common Assessment Program, Reading Grade-Level Expectations (www.ed.state.nh.us)
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