TPRI: How do you get a fluency rate for student who scores at frustration level on both stories?

 Answer

A student who scores Frustrational on both stories will not have a fluency score on the TPRI. The TPRI guideline is that if a student scores Frustrational on a story then teachers do not calculate the fluency rate. From an instructional perspective, the fluency score for a student who is frustrated on a story is not particularly useful because it is not an indicator of the rate at which the student reads when reading a story at the student’s level. In most cases, when texts are too hard for students, their fluency will be lower, and often significantly lower. So, a fluency score on a story that was too hard for the student doesn’t really help to plan instruction because there is not much a teacher can conclude based on the score.

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