Product Overview
From acclaimed educators and best-selling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey comes Teaching Reading: Mastering the Fundamentals, a series of four laminated guides that provide teachers with essential information and strategies for teaching students in grades K-6 how to read. The guides, which are designed to be used sequentially as a set but can also be stand-alone resources for targeting certain components of teaching reading, draw from the latest research and present practical, powerful strategies that teachers can utilize right away in their classrooms.
This guide, #2 in the series, focuses on methods for building the reading fluency of elementary students to foster comprehension.
Readers will learn about
- reading fluency terms
- measures of oral reading fluency
- using oral fluency norms to guide instruction and intervention
- measures of prosody
- six techniques for teaching fluency
- profiles of disfluent readers
- fluency interventions for disfluent readers
- sight word recognition
- high-frequency words
- sight word techniques
- using flashcards effectively
- heart words
- common mistakes to avoid
