Educators who want to know more about evidence-based reading instruction topics can find accurate and current information on the over 150 sites included on these lists. While we are providing this list of relevant educational links as a service to the educational community, we do not endorse nor do we have any association with these sites.
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FLUENCY INTERNET RESOURCES
Teaching Fluency — Research and commentary on the importance and complexity of teaching fluency
Fluent Reading — Article with tips on how to support learning fluency
Johnson School’s School-wide Reading Effort — Article focused on instructional time, team, text, and tasks at one school-wide reading program
Put Reading First: Fluency Instruction — Comments on scientifically based research, common questions regarding fluency instruction, modeling fluency, and activities for oral practice
Developing Reading Fluency — Breaks down the direct and indirect approach
Official DIBELS Home Page — Uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy
Readers Theatre — Uses Reader’s Theatre to teach fluency including sample scripts
Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theater Page — Scripts and tips for Reader’s theater
Fluency in Word Identification
Fluency in Beginning Reading — Why it’s important; how to teach it; how to assess it
5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
A Focus on Fluency — The Pacific Resources for Education and Learning provides services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation
What is a Fluent Reader — Characteristics of a fluent reader
Reading Fluency — Teaching fluency with learning-and behavior-challenged children
Reading Resources for Parents: Fluency — Online and library resource suggestions
Teacher’s Corner: Oral Reading Fluency
Knowledge Loom: Vocabulary — Technology tips and implications for English language learners
Critical Components of Reading: Fluency Activities
Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5
Fluency Instruction — The Partnership on Reading weighs in on fluency instruction
What Works in Fluency Instruction — Comments on guided oral reading and silent independent reading
Assessing Reading Fluency Booklet — Dr. Timothy V. Rasinski discusses research on assessments for monitoring students’ fluency development
Decoding/Fluency — Beginning decoding resources
Fluency and Learning to Read: The Reading Skills Pyramid
Reading Milestones — Milestones for second and third graders
Ways to Help Children Improve Reading Fluency and Skills — Twenty ways to help children improve reading fluency and skills
How Fluently Do Our Children Read? — NAEP’s oral reading fluency scale and assessment
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