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Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read a text correctly and quickly. Find out what strategies are recommended to improve students' fluency and how to incorporate those strategies at home and at school.
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Sound It Out
- Fluency in kindergarten
- Careful watching and listening during those first few days of school
- Monitoring self-monitoring
- Reading at home: "You either get angry or you can bribe them"
- We're hot! We're bored!
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Basics
- For Students Who Are Not Yet Fluent, Silent Reading Is Not the Best Use of Classroom Time
- Fluency: An Introduction
- What Works in Fluency Instruction
For teachers
- Extending Readers Theatre: A Powerful and Purposeful Match with Podcasting
- Finding the Right Book Level: PALS Equivalencies
- Screening, Diagnosing, and Progress Monitoring for Fluency: The Details
- Using Poetry to Teach Reading
- Reader's Theater: Giving Students a Reason to Read Aloud
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- Screening, Diagnosing, and Progress Monitoring for Fluency: The Details
- Questions About Fluency Instruction
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- Establishing an Effective Reading Program
- Comprehension: Helping English Language Learners Grasp the Full Picture
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- Fluency: Bridge Between Decoding and Reading Comprehension
- A Synthesis of Research on Effective Interventions for Building Reading Fluency with Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities
In our LearningStore
- The Source for Reading Fluency
- Launching Young Readers: 11-Part Series
- Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills
