Rasinski, Timothy V

"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.

Provides information about the benefits of oral reading in early reading instruction, and describes a variety of oral reading strategies, including read aloud, supported reading, repeated reading, and performance reading, that may be implemented in the elementary classroom.

Contains strategies, lessons, and activities for using fluency instruction in prekindergarten through fourth grade, and includes teacher interviews, effectiveness studies, and resource materials.

Contain sixteen three-minute reading assessments teachers may use to determine student abilities in word recognition, fluency rate and expression, and comprehension, each consisting of a brief reading passage and a grading form. Includes four passages per grade, from first to fourth.

Presents one hundred reproducible word study lessons for the second and third-grade classroom that helps develop reading, vocabulary, spelling, and phonics skills.

Presents over one hundred reproducible word study lessons for the first through second-grade reading classroom, and contains vocabulary, spelling, and phonics exercises, and more.

Contains reprints of seventeen articles drawn primarily from the Teaching Reading department of "The Reading Teacher" journal published between 1993 and 1999 in which the authors share classroom-tested strategies for helping students learn about words.