I absolutely love Mr. Rasinski's book, The Fluent Reader. Last week I had the opportunity to present a Fluency Session for our literacy professional development. This is the time of year students fall behind their peers in regards to fluency and independent reading fluency.
What is Fluency? The ability to read the words in a text with sufficient accuracy, automaticity, and prosody to lead to good comprehension.
This book is a must have for any elementary teacher! Mr. Rasinski presents the latest research and shares many effective fluency strategies that are easy to integrate in a balanced literacy program. He also includes a DVD with video samples and many downloads to get you started. I read the book in just a few days and I was so excited to get a chance to share my findings with our PreK-5 teachers. Highlights from the book:
Read Aloud-motivating readers & modeling
Assisted Reading-scaffolding for your developing & struggling readers
Repeated Reading- ways to implement this strategy in fun & engaging ways
great ideas to use assistants, volunteers, parents, older student tutors
Performance Reading- fun! poetry, songs, chants, Reader's Theater
many ideas, and ways to start instantly
Synergy- how to make lessons engaging, fun & powerful
Content Areas- integrate fluency throughout the day in many content areas
Assessment- how to best assess, rubrics, don't over rely on DIBELS!
Video: Tim Rasinski on teaching reading fluency
Happy Reading! Mrs. Speake
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