Reading Fluency Passages for Grade 3

Empower your third graders to read with confidence, accuracy, and expression using this dynamic Fluency resource! Aligned with Reading First research, this 80-page book provides a variety of proven strategies to help students enhance their oral reading fluency while deepening comprehension.

Through high-interest and skill-building activities such as:

• Partner reading
• Repeated reading
• Choral reading
• Readers’ theater

Students develop essential reading habits that support pacing, phrasing, and expression—while also improving vocabulary and understanding.

Inside you’ll find:

• Engaging fluency passages across multiple genres
• Opportunities for modeled and independent reading practice
• Tools for building reading stamina and confidence
• Assessments and rubrics to monitor fluency progress and growth

Perfect for:

• Whole group fluency practice
• Small group guided reading
• Reading intervention and enrichment
• Literacy centers or at-home reinforcement

This resource helps students make the shift from basic decoding to fluent, expressive reading—preparing them for success with more complex texts in upper grades.