Kriah fluency standards is something that many kriah curriculum advisers and pre-school directors have always wanted to have. We are hereby sharing our Kriah Fluency standards as follows:
At the end of Pre 1A (Where they finish learning all כללים and begin to read תהלים/סידור towards the end) 25 Words Per Minute for 90% of the students
At the end of 1st Grade (Where they review the כללים and continue to read תהלים/סידור and begin learning chumash) 45 Words Per Minute for 90% of the students
At the end of 2nd Grade 60 Words per minute for 90% of the students.
The numbers are based on working in schools with close to 10,000 students across the globe by Rabbi David Ungar and his colleagues.
Other Goals are as follows:
Kindergarten: 90% of students reach a rate of 50 seconds to name all 33 alef-beis.
Pre 1A: 90% of students to reach a rate of 0.8 seconds per syllable when reading syllables (not words).
I hope this information is found helpful to our readers. Feel free to comment with any questions.
Soon we will be launching our unique school/student management system that will give schools the ability to measure their students kriah achievement according to those norms and where everyone can contribute with the norms of their school to benefit other schools globally. Stay tuned on this program by visiting app.ssuccess.net.
If you fell those standards are set too high, those we’re set by actual students, not by teachers or principals, that said, there’s a way to reach those standards. We have to analyze our curriculum goals and teaching methods to determine where we can improve to get the kriah of our students to the potential level of achievement.