According to Hasbruck and Tindal (2006), average fluency rates for these ages are 140 CWPM for sixth graders, with a range of 82-195. For 7th grade, the average is 136 with a range of 88-192. Our sixth grader began at 63, which is far below the norm of 140. Our seventh grade students began at 109 and 133, also both below the norm of 136. By the time they read the final passages, the sixth grader read at 94 and the seventh graders read 150 and 119. Two of the three students came far closer to the mean, and one surpassed it.