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title: How to help kids become more fluent readers
description: "Improve kids’ reading fluency by helping them learn to read faster and more accurately. These strategies can help with fluency and reading skills.\n"
slug: improve-reading-fluency-children
author: Ginny Osewalt
published: '2019-08-05T15:59:54.033Z'
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source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/improve-reading-fluency-children
lang: en
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# How to help kids become more fluent readers

[Reading fluency](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/why-isnt-my-child-reading-fast-enough) is the ability to read at a good pace, with accuracy, and with the right expression. Fluent readers also understand what they’re reading.

Here are some ways kids can improve their fluency:

- Listen to models of fluent reading, like read-alouds. Audiobooks can also be great models of reading fluency. 
- Practice [sight words](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-are-sight-words) so kids can automatically recognize words.
- Have kids read a short text at their reading level several times. Count how many words they read correctly in one minute. Record the results on a graph. Repeat several times. (This is called “repeated readings.”) Soon they’ll see that their speed and accuracy improve. 
- Read a sentence together. Then draw slash marks to “chunk” the text into meaningful phrases of three to five words. Kids should take a short pause at the slash marks when reading.

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