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THE PRACTICE: Teachers frequently engage students in oral reading to develop their reading fluency.


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  • 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachstrat/readin
    gfluencystrategies.htm

    This article presents five engaging strategies for teachers to use year-round with young students to improve their reading fluency.

  • Every Child a Reader Topic 4, High Frequency Words and Fluency
    http://reading.indiana.edu/www/indexlp.html

    A well-organized document about important factors that affect fluency development, with recommendations for struggling readers and English language learners, this is a downloadable (but not printable) PDF file from a series on instructional practices for teaching early reading.

  • Explore the Evidence-Based Research on Reading Instruction Using This Database
    http://www.nifl.gov/cgi-bin/pfr/search.cgi

    The Partnership for Reading Web site provides a searchable database of research abstracts for the studies included in the National Reading Panel meta-analysis.

  • Fluency Development as the Bird Learns to Fly
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/fluency.htm

    An engaging article about important factors that affect fluency development, this downloadable PDF file directs the reader beyond oral reading practice and the speed of reading to the importance of language development and comprehension. The Web site also contains other resources such as classroom activities, and products developed by Scholastic.

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