TPRI: How should a teacher determine the average fluency rate when a student reads one story, but the other story is administered as Listening Comprehension?

 Answer

If the student is able to read one story, but scores Frustrational on the other story, then the teacher only calculates a fluency rate for the story read. Since the teacher has just one fluency score, it won’t be necessary to determine an average fluency score. For planning and reporting purposes, when an average score is requested, teachers should use the fluency score from the one story the student was able to read without reaching the Frustration Level. Teachers may wish to note students who read only one story and keep this information in mind when creating groups for targeted instruction.

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