Use a story that will allow you assess fluency and comprehension. Using a fluency-rate story is helpful because it already has the numbers at the end of each line in a story. The numbers represent the number of words on each line in that sentence. If a fluency-rate story is not available, any story will do.
Ask students to read the story aloud. Allow them to read it for one minute. Use a timer to make sure you're allowing the appropriate amount of time. As they're reading, draw a line through words skipped or read incorrectly. Afterward, count the number of words the student read correctly. This number is their fluency rate, which means the number of words read correctly per minute.
Allow the students to read the story again and take all the time they need to finish it. Afterward, ask each student questions about the story. Create questions that are explicit and implicit if the passage doesn't come with questions. Explicit questions are those that can be answered based on direct information in the story. Readers can literally point to the answer in the story. Implicit questions require students to infer meaning using clues and information from the story.
Record the fluency rate and responses to the questions. In order to know if the student has improved in reading and comprehension, assessments have to take place over a period of time. Creating a graph can be a way to determine if improvement is really happening.
Create a graph. Use different colors to represent the fluency rate, number of explicit questions answered correctly and number of implicit questions correctly answered. If a single graph is too complicated, create three separate graphs: one for fluency, another for explicit questions and one more for implicit questions. Graphs help you and the student see where gains are being made and where there's room for improvement.
Repeat the process either weekly or biweekly. Four to eight recordings will give you insight into whether or not improvement in reading and comprehension is really taking place.