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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.

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Author:   Timothy Rasinski (Kent State University, United States) ,  Nancy Padak (Kent State University, United States) ,  Allison L Baer ,  Kaybeth Calabria
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 26.70cm
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9781462511532

ISBN 10:   1462511538
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   29 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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This book is chock-full of practical ideas for making fluency a fun and enjoyable part of your daily routine--for example, podcasting, activities that incorporate songs and poems, and 5-minute movement activities that let students 'get the wiggles out' while practicing fluent reading. All the chapters include classroom examples and ways to fit fluency into the day with little additional planning. Read this book and you will never go back to the kinds of fluency lessons that dampen everyone's enthusiasm for reading.--Patricia M. Cunningham, PhD, Department of Education, Wake Forest University Classroom teachers will welcome this volume. Chapters explore research-based practices that improve reading fluency and comprehension, complete with definitions, clear directions, implementation guidance, and classroom examples. The approaches provided can be used in varied contexts--with small groups or the whole class, with English language learners, in intervention settings, and with parents as educational partners. This text would be of benefit in undergraduate as well as graduate reading education classes.--Diane DeFord, PhD, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina This book is a 'must have' for teachers and future teachers who are concerned about helping all students become fluent readers and excellent comprehenders. The editors make a compelling case that fluency instruction must include more than just attention to accuracy and rate; it also needs to focus on prosody, or expressive reading. The book is packed with effective strategies that build fluency and reading comprehension. Written by researchers and practitioners, this book is perfect for reading methods courses and clinical courses as well as the professional book collection of every school.--Laurie Elish-Piper, PhD, Presidential Teaching Professor and Literacy Clinic Director, Northern Illinois University A wonderful book on reading fluency: insightful, sensitive, comprehensive, well researched, clearly written, and practical. I have no doubt this book will help teachers, learning consultants, reading specialists, and school psychologists avoid the many misunderstandings about reading fluency, better understand its components, and improve students' skills. Especially helpful are the well-developed examples of how to use an abundance of highly motivating methods of instruction. In my work with struggling readers, I will use this book repeatedly.--Howard Margolis, EdD, Professor Emeritus of Reading Disabilities and Special Education, City University of New York -

This book is chock-full of practical ideas for making fluency a fun and enjoyable part of your daily routine--for example, podcasting, activities that incorporate songs and poems, and 5-minute movement activities that let students 'get the wiggles out' while practicing fluent reading. All the chapters include classroom examples and ways to fit fluency into the day with little additional planning. Read this book and you will never go back to the kinds of fluency lessons that dampen everyone's enthusiasm for reading.--Patricia M. Cunningham, PhD, Department of Education, Wake Forest University Classroom teachers will welcome this volume. Chapters explore research-based practices that improve reading fluency and comprehension, complete with definitions, clear directions, implementation guidance, and classroom examples. The approaches provided can be used in varied contexts--with small groups or the whole class, with English language learners, in intervention settings, and with parents as educational partners. This text would be of benefit in undergraduate as well as graduate reading education classes.--Diane DeFord, PhD, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina This book is a 'must have' for teachers and future teachers who are concerned about helping all students become fluent readers and excellent comprehenders. The editors make a compelling case that fluency instruction must include more than just attention to accuracy and rate; it also needs to focus on prosody, or expressive reading. The book is packed with effective strategies that build fluency and reading comprehension. Written by researchers and practitioners, this book is perfect for reading methods courses and clinical courses as well as the professional book collection of every school.--Laurie Elish-Piper, PhD, Presidential Teaching Professor and Literacy Clinic Director, Northern Illinois University A wonderful book on reading fluency: insightful, sensitive, comprehensive, well researched, clearly written, and practical. I have no doubt this book will help teachers, learning consultants, reading specialists, and school psychologists avoid the many misunderstandings about reading fluency, better understand its components, and improve students' skills. Especially helpful are the well-developed examples of how to use an abundance of highly motivating methods of instruction. In my work with struggling readers, I will use this book repeatedly.--Howard Margolis, EdD, Professor Emeritus of Reading Disabilities and Special Education, City University of New York -

A wonderful book on reading fluency: insightful, sensitive, comprehensive, well researched, clearly written, and practical. I have no doubt this book will help teachers, learning consultants, reading specialists, and school psychologists avoid the many misunderstandings about reading fluency, better understand its components, and improve students' skills. Especially helpful are the well-developed examples of how to use an abundance of highly motivating methods of instruction. In my work with struggling readers, I will use this book repeatedly. - Howard Margolis, Professor Emeritus of Reading Disabilities and Special Education, City University of New York, USA Classroom teachers will welcome this volume. Chapters explore research-based practices that improve reading fluency and comprehension, complete with definitions, clear directions, implementation guidance, and classroom examples. The approaches provided can be used in varied contexts--with small groups or the whole class, with English language learners, in intervention settings, and with parents as educational partners. This text would be of benefit in undergraduate as well as graduate reading education classes. - Diane DeFord, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina, USA This book is a 'must have' for teachers and future teachers who are concerned about helping all students become fluent readers and excellent comprehenders. The editors make a compelling case that fluency instruction must include more than just attention to accuracy and rate; it also needs to focus on prosody, or expressive reading. The book is packed with effective strategies that build fluency and reading comprehension. Written by researchers and practitioners, this book is perfect for reading methods courses and clinical courses as well as the professional book collection of every school. - Laurie Elish-Piper, Presidential Teaching Professor and Literacy Clinic Director, Northern Illinois University, USA This book is chock-full of practical ideas for making fluency a fun and enjoyable part of your daily routine--for example, podcasting, activities that incorporate songs and poems, and five-minute movement activities that let students 'get the wiggles out' while practicing fluent reading. All the chapters include classroom examples and ways to fit fluency into the day with little additional planning. Read this book and you will never go back to the kinds of fluency lessons that dampen everyone's enthusiasm for reading. - Patricia M Cunningham, Department of Education, Wake Forest University, USA

A wonderful book on reading fluency: insightful, sensitive, comprehensive, well researched, clearly written, and practical. I have no doubt this book will help teachers, learning consultants, reading specialists, and school psychologists avoid the many misunderstandings about reading fluency, better understand its components, and improve students' skills. Especially helpful are the well-developed examples of how to use an abundance of highly motivating methods of instruction. In my work with struggling readers, I will use this book repeatedly. --Howard Margolis, EdD, Professor Emeritus of Reading Disabilities and Special Education, City University of New York <br> Classroom teachers will welcome this volume. Chapters explore research-based practices that improve reading fluency and comprehension, complete with definitions, clear directions, implementation guidance, and classroom examples. The approaches provided can be used in varied contexts--with small groups or the whole class, with English language learners, in intervention settings, and with parents as educational partners. This text would be of benefit in undergraduate as well as graduate reading education classes. --Diane DeFord, PhD, Swearingen Literacy Chair, University of South Carolina <br> This book is a 'must have' for teachers and future teachers who are concerned about helping all students become fluent readers and excellent comprehenders. The editors make a compelling case that fluency instruction must include more than just attention to accuracy and rate; it also needs to focus on prosody, or expressive reading. The book is packed with effective strategies that build fluency and reading comprehension. Written by researchers and practitioners, this book is perfect for reading methods courses and clinical courses as well as the professional book collection of every school. --Laurie Elish-Piper, PhD, Presidential Teaching Professor and Literacy Clinic Director, Northern Illinois Universitynizers

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Timothy Rasinski, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education in the Reading and Writing Center at Kent State University, where he directed the award-winning university reading clinic for more than 20 years. Dr. Rasinski has written extensively in articles, chapters, and books on working with children who struggle in acquiring full literacy. A former editor of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Literacy Research, he currently serves on the editorial review boards for Reading Research Quarterly, Literacy Research and Instruction, and Reading Psychology. Dr. Rasinski is a member of the International Reading Hall of Fame. Nancy Padak, EdD, is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education at Kent State University, where she directed the Reading and Writing Center and taught in the area of literacy education. Formerly she was the Principal Investigator for the Ohio Literacy Resource Center and has also been a classroom teacher and district administrator. An active researcher, author, and consultant, Dr. Padak is a past president of the College Reading Association and former editor of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Literacy Research.

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