features

  • Installs in seconds
  • Quick start, easy to use
  • Constant access to data
  • Includes 6 passages per grade level (1st through 8th grade) — with more original passages always on the way!

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Available in the App Store

FluencyFinder is available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in the iTunes App Store.

Learn more below about how FluencyFinder can help you spend less time testing and more time teaching!

Get Results Right Away

Whether you’re a teacher, home schooler, active player in your student’s education — or anyone involved in assessing student reading skills — FluencyFinder is the powerful, time-saving app for your teaching arsenal. Lose the paper and pencil. Toss the timer and calculator. Say goodbye to the time-consuming manual labor required for fluency assessments — recording results, maintaining records, sharing information.

Saves You Time

No more counting words and mistakes or clocking reading time. FluencyFinder does it all for you, accurately and efficiently — so you spend more time on what really matters – making your student a better reader!

Designed By a Teacher

Designed by a fourth grade teacher frustrated with the many hours required for student reading evaluations, FluencyFinder makes it quick and easy to assess fluency for 1st – 8th grade reading levels. No watching the timer or writing down mistakes! No calculating and recording results!

Focus On What Matters

FluencyFinder does all the work and stores it all on your iPhone or iPad. So you can focus on what counts — listening and assessing your student’s reading fluency, expression, and comprehension.

Do you love FluencyFinder, too? Please let us know by giving us a review and rating in the App Store!
Tell us now!


  • Fantastic Find! We homeschool two children and love this app. Easy to use, captures your data and tells me the expected WPM for their grade level. Love it!!!!iTunes App Store Review

  • As a lifelong advocate for a parent’s role in their child’s education and success, I very much appreciate this app. It gives parents a great tool for helping their child at home while supporting the role of the teacher at the same time. Thank you so much! Parents will find this very helpful!iTunes App Store Review

  • Awesome App! I just assessed my entire 4th grade class in half the time it usually takes… It was so nice to not watch my stopwatch and finally be able to focus more effectively on the student’s reading. My scores are right at my fingertips and I will be able to track them throughout the year. A true time saver with accurate and trackable results!! A MUST HAVE for all teachers!iTunes App Store Review

  • This app is a must have! What a great tool for busy teachers. Thanks!!iTunes App Store Review

  • FluencyFinder has saved me so much time! I love this app. All I need to do is grab my iPad, look up a particular student, and I am able to find their results in seconds.Michelle, 3rd grade teacher, Maryland

  • I heard about this app from another teacher at school and it has changed my life. I don’t know how we ever got by without it! Thank you, FluencyFinder! iTunes App Store Review

  • This app is just what I needed! With FluencyFinder, all of my data is easy to access and always available!Lisa, 4th grade, Georgia

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How do I print passages?

    On this website, select the “Passages” tab and click on the name of each passage you would like to download and print for your students to read.

  • How do I access students’ results and keep track of the data in the app?

    Tap the “Students” button, then select the student you would like to review. Tap “Assessment History” to view the results and information for each of the selected student’s assessments.

  • How fast should a student read?

    Target rates for each grade are:

    • First Grade: 60-70 WPM
    • Second Grade: 80-95 WPM
    • Third Grade: 100-120 WPM
    • Fourth Grade: 120-135 WPM
    • Fifth Grade: 130-145 WPM
    • Sixth Grade: 140-155 WPM
    • Seventh Grade: 150-165 WPM
    • Eighth Grade: 160-175 WPM

  • The app does not seem to fit on my device’s screen correctly. How do I fix this?

    Ensure that your Zoom setting is off by following these steps:

    • Close FluencyFinder.
    • Open the Settings app.
    • Tap General > Accessibility > Zoom.
    • If Zoom is set to On, slide it to Off.
    • Open FluencyFinder.

    If this does not resolve the issue, try restarting your device by following these steps:

    • Simultaneously hold down the power button and home button.
    • Slide to power off.
    • Hold down the power button until the device turns on.
    • Open FluencyFinder.

Choose from either a Word or PDF file for each passage to download and print for your students to read.

Please note: FluencyFinder narrative passages are original material. Fables and Myths are drawn from various original sources. The informational passages have been researched for factual material and then written for grade reading level. Literary passages are exact excerpts from original texts currently in the public domain, with occasional minor editorial changes to allow for word count and grade reading level requirements.


1st Grade Reading Level Passages



2nd Grade Reading Level Passages



3rd Grade Reading Level Passages



4th Grade Reading Level Passages



5th Grade Reading Level Passages



6th Grade Reading Level Passages



7th Grade Reading Level Passages



8th Grade Reading Level Passages