By having students read one or two grade-level passages for one minute each, teachers can get a quick sense of their students' level of decoding accuracy, automaticity, and prosodic reading. Rasinski's Multidimensional Fluency Scale is an example of a quick assessment that may not be definitive, but does provide teachers and school administrators with a method for screening new students, tracking students' ongoing progress in the various dimensions of reading fluency, and identifying the students who may require additional assessment and instruction.

The article, Assessing Reading Fluency, by Dr. Rasinksi, provides further insight into Fluency assessment techniques.