Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Fluency will not improve You teach second grade. Students are expected to read 100 words per minute by the end of the school year. You have one student who only reads 65 words per minute. She passes all comprehension measure and her reading is fluid even though it is slow. You have tried a few interventions but her fluency number will not improve. What do you do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) My daughter is close to this situation. She has excellent comprehension but because of her speech she could not pronounce many words. This was effecting her fluency. She is much better now. However, she has to play catch up with some words she was not able to sound out in first grade. It will take the speech therapist, me, and the teacher to assist with reinforcement. Encouragement by her peers in the classroom and at home is very important. My daughter was hesitant to read aloud because she did not like how she sounded in comparison with others.