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Create and Organize Reading Fluency Passages

Learn how to create, import, export, print, and organize reading fluency passages in ReadingFluency.app with passage collections.

Passages are the texts students read during oral reading fluency assessments. In ReadingFluency.app, you can generate passages, paste your own text, import from a PDF, photo, CSV, or clipboard, print classroom copies, and organize passages into collections.

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Organize Reading Fluency Passages with Collections

Create a passage

  1. From the Dashboard or Passages page, click New Passage.
  2. Stay on AI Generate, switch to Manual Entry, or open Import.
  3. For AI generation, choose grade, language, duration, and optional topic.
  4. For supported languages such as Chinese, use Level and Focused Words to target standards or vocabulary.
  5. Click Generate & Start or Save & Start.

Manual entry is useful when you already have a benchmark, curriculum, or intervention passage.

Import, export, and print passages

Creating and importing are the same page. Import is the third tab on New Passage, not a separate menu item.

  1. Go to Passages.
  2. Click the arrow next to New Passage and choose Import passages, or open New Passage and click Import.
  3. Drop a PDF, photo, CSV, or pasted text onto the importer, review the detected passages, then import.
  4. Open Manage Passages and choose Export passages to download the current filtered passage view.
  5. Open a passage card menu and choose Print to preview a clean classroom copy with running word counts in the margins.

CSV files use these columns: Title, Text, Grade, Language, and Tags.

If your passages live in a PDF packet, a photo of a page, or a copied document, the same Import tab extracts them with AI and flags anything already in your library. See Import passages from a PDF with AI, which also covers the printable assessment form in detail.

Use passage collections

Passage collections let you organize texts into benchmark sets, units, intervention cycles, seasonal lists, or reusable warmups. A passage can belong to more than one collection.

  1. Go to the Passages page.
  2. Click New Collection.
  3. Name the collection, such as "Grade 3 Benchmark Set".
  4. Select a collection chip to filter the library.
  5. When a collection is selected, use the reorder handle to change passage order.

Add one passage to multiple collections

  1. Open the passage card action menu.
  2. Choose Add to Collections.
  3. Check every collection that should include the passage.
  4. Create a new collection from the same dialog if needed.
  5. Click Save.

Share a collection with colleagues

Any collection can be handed to another teacher as a link. They preview the passages and copy them into their own library, without gaining access to your workspace. See Share a passage collection with colleagues.

Next tutorial

Bring existing passages in from a PDF packet: Import passages from a PDF with AI.