## ***Practice 1 - Repeated Reading*** Repeated Reading is a structured practice in which a student reads the same passage multiple times with a goal of increasing accuracy, rate, and prosody. The teacher or a partner provides corrective feedback, and progress is often graphed so students can track their own growth in words correct per minute (WCPM). |Pros|Cons| |---|---| |Strong research support; directly builds reading automaticity.|Students may memorize rather than decode with repeated exposure.| |Self-monitoring through graphing motivates students.|Some students find reading the same text repeatedly tedious.| |Works in one-on-one, partner, and small-group formats.|Limited transfer to novel texts if not paired with wide reading practice.| **** ## ***Practice 2 - Reader's Theater*** Reader's Theater is a performance-based fluency activity where students read from scripts with expression and prosody — without memorization or costumes. Repeated rehearsal builds fluency naturally through the authentic goal of performing for an audience. |Pros|Cons| |---|---| |Highly motivating; builds prosody and expression alongside rate.|Preparation time for scripts can be high.| |Social and collaborative; connects fluency to comprehension.|Progress is harder to quantify than WCPM measures.| |Easy to differentiate by assigning roles of varying complexity.|Students with stage anxiety may be reluctant to participate.|