How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.

Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."

This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...

An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...

Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.

This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...

This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...

A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.

In this lesson, students will practice applying word study strategies to improve your reading fluency and comprehension. L.9-10.5b nuances

An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...

Learn the importance of alphabetic sequence and using common letter patterns to support fluency. For adult learners.

A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.

This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...

A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.

This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to kindergarteners. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.

This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 1st graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.

Apply previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve fluency and comprehension.

In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson plan is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence...

Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.

A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.

In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...

A reading comprehension exercise designed for Spanish-speaking ELLs about the present and future use of robots. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise is in English.

Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs about transportation and related topics designed to engage reading comprehension skills.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about zoo animals. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for lions, polar bears, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more.