Unlock the power of Reading with Our Early Literacy Fluency Program
Transforming lives through early literacy education
ESSA Tier 4 Certification from Johns Hopkins University
Exciting News!
We are proud to share that Elevating Fluency has been officially recognized by Johns Hopkins University as meeting ESSA Tier 4 Evidence. This certification affirms that our program has a well-defined, comprehensive logic model and reflects best practices supported by the science of reading.
The Johns Hopkins design review confirms that Elevating Fluency fully aligns with the principles of structured literacy, providing systematic, explicit, and evidence-based instruction that strengthens foundational reading skills and accelerates student growth.
The report also specifies that Elevating Fluency intentionally incorporates numerous strategies recommended by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) to support learners with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. Additionally, the review highlights the thoughtful design components that ensure meaningful, accessible literacy and language development for multilingual learners.
This recognition represents an important milestone in our mission: equipping educators with high-quality tools that elevate reading success for all developing readers.
About Us
Our Story
Who Benefits from the Program
Our Program
Elevating Fluency is committed to addressing the literacy needs of young readers. We have cultivated our experiences as Literacy and Biliteracy Coaches, Reading Interventionists, and classroom teachers to develop a fluency program for all levels of readers in the primary grades. We believe that prevention and early intervention are paramount to reading success for all striving readers.
Our Program
Who Benefits from the Program
Our Program
Elevating Fluency integrates numerous strategies that align with the science of reading research, specifically tailored for early literacy development. Our reading fluency program offers a three-tiered approach to enhance fluency skills in young readers. Each lesson emphasizes a specific phonics skill, connecting it to language developmen
Elevating Fluency integrates numerous strategies that align with the science of reading research, specifically tailored for early literacy development. Our reading fluency program offers a three-tiered approach to enhance fluency skills in young readers. Each lesson emphasizes a specific phonics skill, connecting it to language development, fluency, and comprehension. This program effectively meets the diverse needs of your learners by providing targeted fluency practice with grade-level phonics skills suitable for all levels of readers, making it an ideal choice for effective reading intervention and comprehensive fluency reading programs.
Who Benefits from the Program
Who Benefits from the Program
Who Benefits from the Program
The program can be used for:
- Kindergarten: All kindergarten students who are learning to read.
- First Grade: All first-grade students .
- Second Grade: All second-grade students.
- Grades K-8: Intervention for striving readers of any age.
- ELL/ML Students: Increase language and reading comprehension. Target non-transferable phonics skills to enhance literacy and language development.
Welcome to Elevating Fluency
What We Do
Elevating Fluency is a highly engaging reading fluency program designed to strengthen early literacy through intentional prevention and early intervention. It also provides extension opportunities for strong readers. Reading fluency is essential for developing skilled readers, and the program includes differentiated reading passages to support learners across K–2+ classrooms. Elevating Fluency aligns seamlessly with the phonics scope and sequence of any structured literacy curriculum. The program builds vocabulary, strengthens oral language development, reinforces phonics through explicit decoding and encoding practice, and improves reading fluency and comprehension. Grounded in the science of reading, Elevating Fluency incorporates evidence-based strategies shown to support students with reading difficulties, including those with characteristics of dyslexia.
Differentiated Passages
By providing three differentiated reading passages for each phonics skill, students are given the stepping stones needed to enhance their early literacy skills and move rapidly toward grade-level reading proficiency and beyond. Additionally, it can be used as an extension for students at or above grade level.
Using Evidence-Based Strategies Endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
- Early identification and intervention
- Diagnostic and responsive in pinpointing student needs and providing tailored instruction
- Explicit, systematic, and cumulative instruction
- Phonemic awareness with the targeted phonics skills (blending and segmenting)
- Layers of scaffolding are implemented to increase student success
- Manageable reading passages
- Phoneme-grapheme mapping of the target skill, including a dictation sentence
- Positive emotional support
Oral Language Development and Language Comprehension Opportunities Throughout Every Lesson
- Access and activate background knowledge through discussion.
- Preview vocabulary and warm-up words, and discuss word meaning, including multiple meanings to support comprehension and language growth.
- Visual supports are intentionally embedded in an illustration to promote vocabulary and warm-up word comprehension.
- Have students use new vocabulary and warm-up words orally in sentences.
- Ask comprehension questions that require full sentence answers.
- Engage students in partner talk or small-group discussion about the text.
- Model and practice oral summarizing of key ideas.
- Allow students to make text-to-self and text-to-world connections through conversation.
- Offer sentence stems and frames as needed to support students in responding with complete sentences and clear academic language.
Student Engagement
Students will read interesting passages that include both fiction and nonfiction as part of their early literacy development. They have a graph on their paper for several reasons. Self-tracking increases motivation and engagement, which leads to greater reading gains. The graph provides these young readers with immediate feedback on their progress—an important aspect of any reading fluency program. This visual tool is also key in connecting with parents, helping students communicate their reading success.
Parent Engagement
Parent involvement in their child’s early literacy development is a vital component of achieving literacy proficiency, particularly for students facing reading difficulties. Engaging in additional practice at home with concepts currently being taught, as well as revisiting previous concepts, benefits all children. Elevating Fluency offers a parent letter (available in English and Spanish) that explains the program and encourages family support. By having their children read the target words and passages aloud, parents can help strengthen reading fluency and reinforce concepts taught. Students often feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments, eagerly showcasing their reading fluency to their parents. This approach serves as an enjoyable and effective method to motivate striving readers to practice their skills at home in a meaningful way.
Combining Multiple Components of Reading Science Research
- Practice word level reading with the targeted phonics skill.
- Transition from word level fluency to reading words in connected text.
- Repeated reading with an adult to improve prosody, accuracy, and rate.
- Phoneme-grapheme mapping of words and dictation with the phonics focus.
- Comprehension questions that require attaching meaning to words with the phonics skill, as well as constructing meaning from the entire passage.