Fluency Fact Cards

  Psalms 68:16 This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in.

I am still in the place of developing new relationships with my students and gaining their trust. I have several autistic students this year with challenging behaviors. I have to remind myself that this is my hill-The Lord's Hill- and there is a purpose for the challenges that I face. One of my boys will shout out in the middle of a math problem, "I love you Miss!" In eleven years of teaching high school I never had students randomly shout out true love for me. When I am tired and frustrated and he will not follow directions or sit in his seat, I am just getting through the moment. It is important to reflect on God's word and the reason he put me in their lives this school year. 

One of my favorite reading intervention resources are fluency fact cards. My students enjoy learning about the different topics as they practice their fluency skills.  CLICK ON LINK!

I hang them on 3m hooks by set. Each topic has a set one and a set two with about 16 questions per set. 

I store the questions in a 3 ring binder and use the Avery Ready Index I order from Amazon to organize the answer pages and answer keys.  Click on Link!

I need to move up to a bigger binder to store the answer sheets. I didn't take a picture but I print the answer keys on yellow paper and put them behind the answer sheets so the students can check their answers independently when they finish a set. 

The student reads each card three times, making a check mark after each read. Then they answer a comprehension question related to what they have read.  Since my class is a resource class, I either read the card to them first or at least listen and correct them as they read it the first time to make sure they are saying each word correctly. I only have two or three students working on these at a time so I can provide enough help. I sit on my red carpenter's chair between them so I can easily slide back and forth to make sure they are on task. I have a daily rotation set up for reading interventions.  My other students are working on Reading Eggs or E books when it is not their day for task cards.

Next week I am going to implement Jen Bengel's Reading Intervention passages during my reading intervention block. She has a great webinar offered to teach teacher's how to use this research based program in the classroom.  Click on Link!