Create and Organize Reading Fluency Passages

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

Passage library

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Create a passage

1. From the Dashboard or Passages page, click New Passage.
2. Choose AI Generate or Manual Entry.
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.

Create a passage with AI settings

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

Manual passage entry

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Import, export, and print passages

1. Go to Passages.
2. Open the Manage Passages menu.
3. Choose Import CSV to upload multiple passages.
4. Choose Export CSV to download the current filtered passage view.
5. Open a passage card menu and choose Print to preview a clean classroom copy.

CSV imports support these columns: Title, Text, Grade, Language, Tags, and Topic.

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.

Passage collections

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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.

Add a passage to collections

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Next tutorial

Once passages are ready, add your students: Add students and roster groups.