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Fluency Tutor is an application for Google Chrome which allows educators to assign reading passages to students via their Google Drive accounts. 
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Reading Activity Reading Comprehension - How well do you understand the things you read? Test and improve your reading with our reading comprehension activity! This activity includes 140 texts, each with a set of challenging questions.
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for online books to help beginner readers or ELL students check out 140 texts available at GCF Learn Free. Each text can be read to the student and there are four questions for each story. If a student answers a question incorrectly they may try again.
Jessica Janus's curator insight,
October 23, 2014 9:26 PM
I tired this out and I think this is a great tool to integrate within the classroom. Perhaps on Friday when there is some free time. |
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Literably "allows students to read a text and have it automatically assessed for accuracy and words-per-minute speed. Plus, and this is what was most surprising to me, it also provides a fairly accurate indentification of student errors — in other words, what word they said instead of the word in the text. You’re able to provide the student or parent a link to the recording. And it’s free."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Thanks for Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this website that allows teachers to choose reading and levels for students to read and saves their reading so you can come back and access it via a dashboard. You will need to register and set-up your student list. Ferlazzo also discusses the cons of this. There is value in having one-on-one time with students when they read so you determine if they are "racing through words" or having other issues that may not be apparent through a recording. None the less this may be a great tool for some of your students. Students do have the option of re-recording.
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If you have Chrome installed on computers at your school consider checking out this app called Fluency Tutor. The website states FluencyTutor "is an easy-to-use, time-saving leveled reading and assessment tool that helps busy teachers support struggling readers. Teachers pick reading passages based on content, lexile level or reading age and share with individual students or groups via Google Drive."
Students may access material from home or school and can record passages. Text-to-speech, a dictionary, a picture dictionary and translation tools are also available.
The teacher dashboard and the student area for interaction is free. If you want to be able to see analytics, track progress, and more there is a charge of $99 per year (for teachers).
Tools such as this are great free resources for many students. You might also want to check out Read&Write for Google.