Description
Helping teachers move beyond fluency as measured by speed alone, this book focuses on building the skills that students need to read accurately, meaningfully, and expressively--the essential components of reading comprehension. Each concise chapter presents a tried-and-true instructional or assessment strategy and shows how K-12 teachers can apply it in their own classrooms, using a wide variety of engaging texts. Special features include classroom examples, "Your Turn" activities, and 24 reproducible forms, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
Chapter
1. Introduction: Fluency at the Core of Effective Literacy Instruction
PART ONE: Modeling Fluency for Students
2. Modeling Fluent Reading through Read-Alouds
3. Increasing Students’ Metafluency Awareness: An Integral Part of Teaching Fluency
PART TWO: Assisted Reading Strategies
4. Whole-Class Choral Reading
6. Audio-Assisted Reading
PART THREE: Phrasing Strategies
7. Fluency through Phrasing: High-Frequency Words
8. Teaching Phrasing through the Phrased Text Lesson
PART FOUR: Deep and Wide Reading Practice
9. Repeated Readings through Readers Theatre
10. Powerful Pairing: Podcasting and Readers Theatre
11. Writing Readers Theatre Scripts
12. Authentic Repeated Reading through Poetry and Song
13. Invoking Walter Cronkite: Radio Reading and the Fluent Reader
14. Increasing Reading Volume: The Million-Minute Reading Challenge
PART FIVE: Integrated Fluency Models for Beginning and Struggling Students
15. Implementing the Fluency Development Lesson: An Intervention Model for Struggling Readers
16. Boosting Fluency of English Language Learners with Music and Poetry Performance Activities
17. Getting Children Off to a Fast Start in Reading
18. Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction
PART SIX: Other Fluency Issues
19. Five-Minute Fluency Active-ities
20. Word Study: The Foundation for Fluency
21. Assessing the Fluency of Automaticity
23. Conclusion: Creating Time for Fluency in Your Reading Program