Fluency Expressive Flash Cards

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I added a fluency time based drill last week.

We use mastered noun flash cards and a timer. I set the timer for 30

seconds and tell him " go fast " . He reads the cards as fast as I can flip

them, actually I think I'm the problem now First time he got 10 cards in

30 seconds after 1 week of practicing only 2-3 times a day he did 25 cards

in 30 seconds. Our goal was 50 in 1 minute. So I am going to build

endurance to 60 seconds now. The reason for this drill is to increase word

retrieval speed and to insure he maintains the words he knows. My son is

4.6 and is a consistent 1 word mander, we are working hard to get

multi-word sentences beyond " I want xxx "

Is anyone else doing this type of fluency drill? Of course we do all kinds

of other things in our program.

just a mom