Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 8. Conclusion. Reading Development: Differing Skills at Different Stages? -- Where Does Fluency Fit in Reading Development? -- 2. What Is Fluent Reading? -- What Is Fluent Reading?: The Role of Automaticity and Prosody -- What Does Effective Fluency Instruction Look Like? -- Where Is Fluency in the CCSS? -- Conclusion -- 3. Assessing Fluent Reading -- Why Assess Fluency? -- Assessing Accurate and Automatic Word Recognition -- Assessing Prosodic Reading -- What about Informal Reading Inventories? -- Conclusion -- 4. Fluency Instruction for Any Setting -- Using Instructional Strategies to Help Students Access Texts -- Echo Reading -- Choral Reading -- Partner Reading -- Conclusion -- 5. Fluency Instruction for Shared Reading -- Selecting Appropriate Texts -- Repeated versus Scaffolded Wide Reading -- Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction -- Wide Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction -- FORI or Wide FORI: Which to Choose? -- Conclusion -- 6. Fluency Instruction for Flexible Groups -- Why Flexible Groups for Teaching Fluency? -- Oral Recitation Lesson -- Fluency-Oriented Oral Reading and Wide Fluency-Oriented Oral Reading -- Supported Oral Reading -- Conclusion -- 7. Fluency Instruction for Individuals -- Making the Most of Opportunities to Work with One or Two Students -- Repeated Readings -- Reading-While-Listening -- Cross-Age Reading -- Neurological Impress Method -- Conclusion -- 8. Supplemental Fluency Instruction -- Why Supplemental Fluency Instruction? -- Paired Repeated Reading -- Fluency Development Lesson -- Readers' Theatre -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Viewing fluency as a bridge between foundational skills and open-ended learning, this book guides teachers through effective instruction and assessment of fluent reading skills in the primary grades. Fluency's relationship to phonological awareness, phonics, and print concepts is explained, and practical methods are shared for integrating fluency instruction in a literacy curriculum grounded in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Classroom examples, weekly lesson plans, and extensive lists of recommended texts add to the book's utility for teachers. Subject Areas/Key words: CCSS, Common Core State Standards, decoding, early grades, elementary grades, fluency, foundational skills, kindergarten, learning, lessons, literacy assessment, oral language, phonics, phonological awareness, preschool, primary grades, print concepts, reading comprehension, text comprehension, vocabulary Audience: PreK-2 classroom teachers, reading specialists and coaches, and special educators; teacher educators and graduate students. "-- Provided by publisher.
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