Some schools choose to use FluentZoo as part of their usual whole-class or small-group reading planning, with a fluency session once per week for a term. Other schools chose to block their fluency sessions together, with a fluency focus at the start of the year, and then using the ideas and concepts children have learnt through the rest of the year's reading lessons. 

FluentZoo sessions are organised across four stages, with each stage offering a growing level of challenge:

• Stage 1 sessions are short and teacher-led, using interesting and motivating texts that no-one in the class should find too tricky, allowing them to concentrate on how they read, rather than decoding the words. 

• Stage 2 sessions build on what children have learnt at Stage 1, working with the teacher to read slightly longer, more-complicated texts and a wider range of reading challenges.

• Stage 3 of FluentZoo introduces children to longer texts by a range of different authors, written in different styles and for different purposes, supporting their growing fluency as well as their comprehension.

• Stage 4 sessions are designed to introduce children to more challenging texts to read aloud, including literary heritage texts that feature archaic language. The presentations have been designed to appeal to older children, too (which means the animals from FluentZoo only appear occasionally…).

Some schools choose to use one stage each year (between Year 2/P3 and Year 5/P6 or Year 3/P4 and Year 6/P7, for example), while others use them over a shorter timescale (over Years 3 and 4, for example).