Reading Fluency, Reader Level A

1. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum

2. Grandmother Spider: An American Indian Myth

3. Obasi's Plan

4. "Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States" by Helen Albee Monsell

5. Pushing a New Idea

6. "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

7. Ellen Ochoa: Making Dreams Come True

8. Getting a Web Site

9. "How the Camel Got Its Hump" by Rudyard Kipling

10. "Clara Barton: Soldier of Mercy" by Mary Catherine Rose

11. Digging Out

12. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

13. Just One of the Herd

14. "The Great Wall of Los Angeles"

15. "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne

16. Percival Lowell and Planet X

17. Helen of Troy: A Greek Myth

18. Eleanor Roosevelt's Answer

19. Chief Black Hawk

20. "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell

21. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

22. "Laura Ingalls Wilder: Life on the Frontier"

23. "Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman" by Ellen Wilson

24. Why Pay Taxes

25. Nazar the Brave: An Armenian Folktale

26. Escaping from Slavery: The Story of William and Ellen Craft

27. "The Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann David Wyss

28. "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

29. Spiders

30. Lady Moon: A Chinese Legend

31. "Jack and Jill" by Louisa May Alcott

32. Pow – It's Gone

33. "Clear As Mud" by Paul Jennings

34. John Henry: An American Legend

35. Fossil Hunter

36. "The Barn" by Avi

Progress Graphs

Jamestown's Reading Fluency series, a research-based approach to increasing fluency, can help students become more fluent readers. Students work in pairs and, at comfortable levels, practice reading aloud smoothly, accurately, and expressively. One student reads aloud a narrative fiction or nonfiction passage from the non-consumable Reader. A partner uses the consumable Reader's Record, marking errors and scoring the oral reading. Repeated readings encourage students to improve their fluency.