Checking our Reading Fluency

I tend to see a lot questions about reading with homeschoolers with little ones. It was a big weight on my mind when I pulled my boys out of the school system as well. Alex was a pretty good reader, or at least he loved the read at night to relax at night. Anthony, however was just coming out of Kindergarten so reading was a big concern. I didn't know if I could teach reading... silly me I had already been doing it anyways but didn't realize it.  Both boys loved the nightly stories that we did, they would pick the longest book they could:)

So when I first started homeschooling I needed to check our reading fluency, I like this reading skills pyramid even though it was a bit young for Alex. It worked well for knowing whether Anthony was on track with his reading. When I found Time4learning it was awesome because we could sit and learn together then I would take the lessons further. He was like a sponge, I was so happy. Fast forward 5 years later and I have two boys that love to read...well about things that interest them.

I still like to test their reading fluency from time to time, right now I am doing short stories and reading comprehension questions. They both think I am nuts because it started out so simple but it is getting harder in terms of reading and the comp questions. I don't think that I will ever stop checking things that I think that we have down... if for nothing else to give me something I can say. WE HAVE GOT THIS!! We all need something that is going great and reading is one of those subjects for us!!

So do you test your kiddos on reading, math facts, etc?? What sites or things do you use?