Reading Fluency IEP Goals

Like non-fiction text comprehension, reading fluency is an IEP goal area often best for students who are closer to grade level. Students tend to enjoy working on fluency– graphing how much they read each day gives them a concrete measure of growth that many students like. And fluency is incredibly useful for text comprehension and meeting grade level standards. But fluency is also meaningless without phonics skills or comprehension. On the flip side, a lot of fluency programs include reading comprehension questions and the progression of word patterns across passage helps students who struggle with traditional phonics programs slowly build decoding and sight words skills. And the Common Core loves fluency– there are good fluency standards at almost every grade level, making it an excellent area to target for grade-level, standard-aligned goals. As a result, we have crafted goals on fluency for elementary, middle, and high school students.