It’s amazing to watch your kindergartner learn to read. Once your student can crack short vowel words like cat, bat, and hen, he is ready for fluency passages. These are stories that allow your child to practice the phonics sounds they’ve learned. Fluency passages also incorporate sight words, or common words like the, they, could, should and want.
These fluency passages are a great way to help your budding reader.
First, start with simple short vowel stories. These are ideal fluency passages for kindergartners.
Next, kindergartners can practice fluency with consonant digraph passages. Consonant digraphs are 2 or more letters that make one sound including: sh, th, _tch, _ck and wh_.
Once kids know short vowels and the most common sight words well, they can read longer passages like the ones available in the following FREE short vowel packet:
Extra Practice for Short Vowels
All about the kindergarten reading fluency passages…
Start off with passages that are short like Bill and Dan. Let your child develop fluency with short stories. Then, gradually select stories that are longer. My students always loved reading fluency passages, because they could read them successfully. They enjoyed reading accurately and fluently, and these passages allowed them to see that they’ve made progress.
Each of these reading fluency passages is focused on a particular phonics sound. For example, “Bill and Dan” allows kids to master short i. “Mex the Rex” allows kids to practice short e. “A Wish” lets kindergartners practice the sh digraph.
Kids can read these passages 3x as long as the readings are spaced out by 24 hours. Beginning readers on stories like “Bill and Dan” can read the passage multiple times in one lesson. However, once kids know most short vowels, readings should be spaced out as to prevent the child from memorizing the passage. You want to make sure kids are reading sound-by-sound, and not guessing or memorizing the words.
Teachers can even send these passages home. That way, parents can see all of the progress their child has made at school.
Kids can also color the passages after they’re done reading.
I hope your beginners enjoy these free Kindergarten fluency passages.
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