Consider the speed at which a student reads. Students with advanced fluency are able to read a text quickly and retain all pertinent textual information, including specific details. Students with intermediate fluency have to read slower and occasionally need to reread portions of the text to retain information. Students who require development read at an intrusively slow pace and periodically have to reread portions of the text to recall information.
Hold a discussion concerned with the assigned text. Students with advanced fluency engage with the discussion thoroughly. They are able to answer your questions and also create relevant questions of their own with reference to specific portions of the text. Intermediately fluent students engage with the discussion to a lesser extent. To properly answer questions, they have to reference the text. Their discussion displays less originality and confidence compared to advanced readers. Students lacking fluency are unable to answer questions or supply unelaborated answers taken directly from the text in front of them.
Assign writing prompts concerned with the text. Students with advanced fluency are able to formulate unique, thought-out responses that are supported by the text. Intermediate students formulate adequate responses, yet they lack somewhat in original thought and textual support. Students who require fluency development formulate unorganized responses that are either irrelevant to the text or devoid of textual support.
Evaluate the student responses to get an idea of each student's level of reading fluency. To an extent, the writing style of the response indicates the student's reading fluency. Features such as advanced vocabulary use, flowing language and well-organized sentence structure show that the student possesses advanced fluency. Features such as awkward wording and unorganized structure are signs of lacking fluency.