fluency (language learning)

"Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers . . . weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with . . . text and tools, an assessment scale, and . . . ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its . . . relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas"--Amazon.com.

Help build students' reading fluency and build awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide kids with the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile resource. A great way to connect social studies content with reading.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for first and second grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for fifth and sixth grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for third and fourth grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Contains fifteen short readers' theater plays on the lives of notable Americans, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman, with background information and activities to help teach key concepts and vocabulary.

A comprehensive research guide for classroom teachers on fluency that offers a range of expert perspectives on key aspects of fluency including history, definitions, instruction and development, and measurement and assessment.