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Teaching Fluency — Research and commentary on the importance and complexity of teaching fluency Fluent Reading — Article with tips on how to support learning fluency Johnson School’s School-wide Reading Effort — Article focused on instructional time, team, text, and tasks at one school-wide reading program Put Reading First: Fluency Instruction — Comments on scientifically based research, common questions regarding fluency instruction, modeling fluency, and activities for oral practice Developing Reading Fluency — Breaks down the direct and indirect approach Official DIBELS Home Page — Uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Readers Theatre — Uses Reader’s Theatre to teach fluency including sample scripts Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theater Page — Scripts and tips for Reader’s theater Fluency in Word Identification Fluency in Beginning Reading — Why it’s important; how to teach it; how to assess it 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency A Focus on Fluency — The Pacific Resources for Education and Learning provides services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation What is a Fluent Reader — Characteristics of a fluent reader Reading Fluency — Teaching fluency with learning-and behavior-challenged children Reading Resources for Parents: Fluency — Online and library resource suggestions Teacher’s Corner: Oral Reading Fluency Knowledge Loom: Vocabulary — Technology tips and implications for English language learners Critical Components of Reading: Fluency Activities Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5 Fluency Instruction — The Partnership on Reading weighs in on fluency instruction What Works in Fluency Instruction — Comments on guided oral reading and silent independent reading Assessing Reading Fluency Booklet — Dr. Timothy V. Rasinski discusses research on assessments for monitoring students’ fluency development Decoding/Fluency — Beginning decoding resources Fluency and Learning to Read: The Reading Skills Pyramid Reading Milestones — Milestones for second and third graders Ways to Help Children Improve Reading Fluency and Skills — Twenty ways to help children improve reading fluency and skills How Fluently Do Our Children Read? — NAEP’s oral reading fluency scale and assessment
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