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Use different Reading Rates to Match Text

Learn how to adjust your reading speed using different gears to improve your fluency and comprehension. Discover which gear is best for different types of reading materials and how to shift gears effectively.

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Use different Reading Rates to Match Text

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  1. Use different Reading Rates to Match Text Goal: Fluency By: Amanda Gregory

  2. How fast can you read this? • The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Geochelone nigra) is the largest living tortoise, native to seven islands of the Galápagos archipelago. Populations have fallen dramatically due to hunting and the introduction of predators and grazers by humans since the seventeenth century. Now only ten subspecies of the original twelve exist in the wild. • -Wikipedia article on Galapagos Tortoises

  3. Now see how fast you can read this: • “Dear Mr. Henshaw, I am the boy who wrote to you last year when I was in the second grade. Maybe you didn’t get my letter. This year I read the book I wrote to you about called Ways to Amuse a Dog. It is the first thick book with chapters that I have read.” • -Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary • Which one could you read faster?

  4. We Use Different Reading Rates • Cars have different gears that are used for different purposes. So do we when we read.

  5. GEARS • 1st Gear is the slowest, but the most powerful. It’s used for memorizing. • 2nd Gear is used to learn material. • 3rd Gear is used for most of our reading. • 4th Gear is the quickest speed, used for skimming and scanning.

  6. Which gear should I use? • Which gear would you use to read your social studies book? • Which gear would you use to read your favorite chapter book? • Which gear would you use to find a vocabulary word in your math book?

  7. Shifting Gears • Make sure to adjust your reading rate to the gear that best suits the material. • If you don’t understand something you’ve read, maybe you need to shift to a slower, more powerful gear.

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