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The best strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your students with many opportunities to read the same passage orally several times. To do this, you should first know what to have your students read. Second, you should...

A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.

This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to read books aloud to the class. Students also spend time researching Eric Carle and his practices as a writer and illustrator. Finally, students become writers and illustrators...