You can use the Oral Reading Fluency Application (ORFA) to administer Oral Reading Fluency assessments. It provides a quick and easy way to capture students' scores for words per minute (WPM) as well as accuracy (number of errors). Before beginning, have the reading passage available as a printout for the student.



 

Sections Covered:

Access Oral Reading Fluency Tool
Conduct Fluency Check
Results Screen
Reports Screen

 

Access Oral Reading Fluency Tool

1. Click on  Menu in the top-left corner and select  Assessment/Gradebook from the menu.



2. From the  Assessment/Gradebook page, select  Oral Reading Fluency from the navigation menu.



3. Click on the  Oral Reading Fluency Application resource. The program will then open in a secondary browser tab.





A. Select the student's name from the  Select Student drop-down list.

B. To start the fluency check, select the  Get Ready for Attempt button.

C. The student's  Attempt History of reading the selected passage is listed under their name.

D. Select a different reading passage from the  Select Passage drop-down list.

E. Each fluency check provides the  Words Per Minute (WPM) goal and the suggested  Error Limit.

F. The selected passage appears on the right. 

G. Click the  Reports tab to view  Fluency Performance data.

 

Conduct Fluency Check

1. Select the student from the  Select Student drop-down.

2. Click the  Get Ready for Attempt button.



3. Each check includes a 60-second timer. Click the  Start Timer button to begin.



4. As the student reads the passage, select any word to record an error. These will mark as red.



5. Once the student finishes reading the passage, click the  Stop button or wait until time has run out.



6. Click the  last word that the student read. This will mark in blue.



 

Results Screen

A. The remaining  Seconds left in the timer.

B. The student's words-per-minute ( WPM) and number of  Errors while reading the passage.

C. The  WPM Goal and maximum  Error Limit to successfully pass the fluency check.

D. Any  Recommendations for completion of future fluency checks.

E. Add any desired teacher  Comments for the student.

F. Click the  Save Attempt button to record the student's current attempt.

G. Click the  Edit button to adjust any comments and selected words.

H. The number of  Errors the student had during the reading of the passage.

I. Any words marked in red are marked as  errors read by the student.

J. The blue marked word is the  last word read by the student.

K. Click the  Reset button to remove results and marks for the current fluency attempt.

L. Click the  Back to Home link to navigate back to the Fluency Tool homepage.

 

Report Screen

To access the Fluency Check reports, click the  Report link at the top-right of the page.



The  Fluency Performance report will open in the same window.



A. Select a student from the  Select Student drop-down to view the fluency data for a specific student.

B. Click the  Select Mode drop-down to toggle between the  Data Grid and  Line Graph.

C. Click the  Edit (pencil) icon to adjust the date range for the data view.

D. The data will show in the selected  Data Grid or  Line Graph.



E. The  Overall Class Summary section provides the  Class Average Score  (WPM) and the list of  Students Below Goal for performed Fluency Checks.

The  Students Below Goal table shows the list of students who scored below goal on 80% or more of their first attempts for all passages.



F. Click the  Print icon to print out the current data view.