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Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit
The Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit (eBook plus Links to YouTube Modeled Readings) provides 43 expository animal fluency articles and 43 corresponding animal comprehension worksheets
Expository Reading Fluency
Struggling remedial readers need both practice in reading fluency and practice in reading increasingly difficult text. Older readers need to both "catch up" and "keep up"…
Good Reading Fluency, but Poor Reading Comprehension
Teachers and parents see it more and more: good reading fluency, but poor reading comprehension. Repeated reading practice to build fluency needs to be balanced with…
5 Reasons SSR Doesn’t Work
Essentially, SSR is based upon these assumptions: Reading is a skill which improves with practice. Students should be allowed to select their own books to read.…
Don’t Teach to the LCD
Our penchant for helping individuals can work cross-purpose to our overall mission of helping all students. In fact, we often wind up teaching to the LCD…
Strange, but True: “Stuffed Animals Increase Reading Levels”
According to Riddering, students were given a stuffed animal as a "reading buddy" and were encouraged to read to their buddy. Because of this method, reading…
Don’t Read Class Novels
When we teach a novel or short story, how much of our instruction should be teacher-dependent and how much should be teacher-independent? My thought is that…
Don’t Use Round Robin and Popcorn Reading
Round robin and popcorn reading are the staples of reading instruction in many teacher classrooms. However, these instructional strategies have more drawbacks than benefits.