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Fluency

The Power of Fluency Development Lessons at Ana Grace Middle School

How Fluency Development Lessons supported stronger literacy skills and helped students build confidence, accuracy, and reading growth.

Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap

How the Fluency Development Lesson helped fifth graders become more confident, fluent, and successful readers.

The Fluency Development Lesson: Where Albert & Pablo Hang Out

Explicit fluency instruction and repeated practice helped close reading gaps and accelerate student learning.

Reading Fluency and the Science of Reading

The role of fluency instruction in helping students read with accuracy, automaticity, expression, and stronger comprehension.

Game Day Fluency

Learn about an effective strategy that engages reluctant readers and writers that also enhances the skills of high achievers.

Scientific and Artful Reading Intervention in 7th Grade

How targeted phonics and fluency instruction helped struggling seventh-grade readers make measurable reading gains.

Using Rapid Recognition Charts

Using Rapid Recognition Charts to strengthen oral reading fluency and improve accuracy with decodable texts.

A Proven Fluency Intervention: Read Two Impress

A practical fluency intervention that combines supported reading, repeated practice, and echo reading to build confidence and accuracy.

A Reading Fluency Intervention In the UK

A 12-week whole-class fluency intervention designed to improve reading outcomes for 8- and 9-year-old students.

Impact of Adapted Whole Class Fluency Development Lessons in Upper Elementary Grades

How whole-class Fluency Development Lessons can be flexibly used to support fluency and comprehension in upper elementary classrooms.

Choral Reading for Prosody in the Secondary Classroom

Choral reading as a collaborative way to build prosody, fluency, comprehension, and confidence with secondary students.

Increasing Reading Fluency for Middle and High School Students

A small-group protocol for helping middle and high school students strengthen reading fluency through guided practice.

A Little Latin and a Whole Lot of English

A playful look at how Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes help students unlock English vocabulary.

Fast Start - The Effects of Fast Start Reading

A research-based look at how home reading support can strengthen fluency and early reading achievement for beginning readers.

Fast Start - Getting Parents and Children Off to a Strong Start in Reading

Practical guidance for helping parents support young readers through simple, engaging phonics and fluency routines at home.

Fast Start - A 3-Year Study of a School-Based Parental Involvement Program in Early Literacy

Research on a school-based family involvement program that strengthened early literacy skills and sustained parent participation over three years.

Impact of Short-Term Intense Fluency Instruction on Students’ Reading Achievement: A Classroom-based, Teacher-Initiated Research Study

A classroom-based study showing how short-term, intensive fluency instruction can improve reading fluency and comprehension for struggling elementary readers.

Why Reading Fluency Should be Hot

An argument for bringing reading fluency back to the center of effective instruction, with emphasis on deeper, more meaningful practice beyond speed.

A Focus on Fluency: How one teacher incorporated fluency with her reading curriculum

Strategies for integrating reading fluency into everyday instruction through Readers Theatre, partner reading, and focused text practice.

Building Fluency through the Phrased Text Lesson

A practical approach to building reading fluency by helping students read in meaningful phrases with expression, accuracy, and understanding.

Teaching Fluency with Poetry: A weekly Routine

A simple, research-based poetry routine that helps young readers build fluency, confidence, and expressive reading.

Because It’s Poetry

How rhyme, rhythm, and structured language help children remember, enjoy, and create poetry while supporting early literacy.

Using Poetry & Repeated Readings to Promote Fluency

A five-day poetry routine using repeated reading and performance to build fluency, confidence, and a love of reading.

BEATBOXING as a Tool for Literacy

Beatboxing as an engaging way to support phonics, rhythm, sound awareness, and early literacy development.

Reader’s Theater for Older Students

Using Reader’s Theater to help older students build fluency, deepen comprehension, and connect more meaningfully with complex texts.

Watch the Words Dance Out: Music and Reading Fluency Practice

A music-based approach to helping students strengthen fluent reading through song, rhythm, and repeated practice.

Singing and Reading in a Preschool Classroom

How repeated singing and reading can build classroom community while supporting concepts of print and early literacy growth.

A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflections on the Power of Song in Teaching Early Reading

Songs and poems as joyful daily tools for building fluency, early reading skills, and classroom engagement.

Rock n Read by Ann Kay

How singing and music-making support brain development, language growth, and stronger reading achievement.

The Power of Poetry by David Harrison

Six reasons poetry can be a powerful classroom tool for building language, literacy, creativity, and student engagement.

Poetry Packs a Punch by Lois Letchford

How poetry, rhyme, laughter, and creativity helped a struggling reader grow into a more confident learner.

What's The Perfect Text for Struggling Readers? Try Poetry!

Poetry as an engaging, confidence-building way to support struggling readers with fluency, expression, and comprehension.

Word Ladders for the Win!

How word ladder activities can strengthen word study, vocabulary, spelling, and student engagement over time.

Word Ladders in My Second Grade Classroom: Ten Minutes of Engaging and Productive Word Study Every Day

A daily word ladder routine that helps second graders build vocabulary, word awareness, and stronger writing skills.

Building Vocabulary in Summer School

A structured approach to building general and academic vocabulary for stronger reading, writing, and content-area learning.

How is the Base of a Latin Verb Determined?

How Latin verb bases unlock word meanings, spelling patterns, and connections across dozens of English words.

Building Vocabulary with Word Roots Builds Reading Comprehension

Using Greek and Latin roots to help students decode, understand, and retain vocabulary across content areas.

Connecting the Dots Between Interactive Writing and Decodable Texts: Literacy Solutions/Lasting Impact

How interactive writing and decodable texts can strengthen phonics instruction while supporting broader reading, writing, and knowledge-building.

Educational Leadership - The Roots of Comprehension

How studying Latin and Greek word origins can strengthen vocabulary instruction and support deeper reading comprehension.

Word Harvesting: Using Authentic Literature as the Source for Vocabulary Learning

Using authentic literature to help students discover rich vocabulary, strengthen word choice, and build deeper language awareness.

Can Latin Help Younger Students Build Vocabulary?

How Greek and Latin roots can help students build vocabulary, understand word meanings, and gain confidence as readers.

From Struggles to Solutions: How Dyslexia Fueled the Creation of Boon-dah Learning to Empower Young Minds

How one educator’s experience with dyslexia inspired tools that support fluency, comprehension, and language-based learning differences.

Scientific and Artful Reading Intervention in 7th Grade

How targeted phonics and fluency instruction helped struggling seventh-grade readers make measurable reading gains.

A Stroke of Ill-Fate: From Literacy Expert to Struggling Student

A personal story of relearning to read after a stroke and deepening understanding of the challenges struggling readers face.

Lessons Learned From My Granddaughter by Laura Robb

How one child’s learning journey offers practical insights for supporting more readers through thoughtful, responsive instruction.

Who Wants to Be a (Reading) Millionaire?

Practical strategies for encouraging independent reading at home and school through a million-minute reading challenge.

Delivering Supportive Fluency Instruction - Especially for Students Who Struggle

Supportive fluency instruction for struggling readers, with practical strategies for building accuracy, expression, and comprehension.

Readers Who Struggle: Why Many Struggle and a Modest Proposal for Improving Their Reading

An examination of why many students struggle with reading and how authentic, engaging foundational instruction can support growth toward proficiency.

How I Learned to Read

A personal reflection on how children can enter literacy in different ways, supported by strong teaching and meaningful early reading experiences.

Becoming My Dad

How kindness, encouragement, and positive influence can shape a teacher’s work with students, colleagues, and school communities.

A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflections on the Power of Song in Teaching Early Reading

Songs and poems as joyful daily tools for building fluency, early reading skills, and classroom engagement.

Watch the Words Dance Out: Music and Reading Fluency Practice

A music-based approach to helping students strengthen fluent reading through song, rhythm, and repeated practice.

Lessons Learned From My Granddaughter by Laura Robb

How one child’s learning journey offers practical insights for supporting more readers through thoughtful, responsive instruction.

Freedom and Independence Through Literacy

How literacy supports freedom, independence, and the lifelong ability to participate fully in society.

How Misunderstandings of Text Complexity May Have Widened the Achievement Gap

How assumptions about text difficulty may have increased reading challenges and widened gaps in student achievement.

On the Latest Obsession with Phonics

A perspective on the ongoing phonics debate and the need for balanced, thoughtful reading instruction.

Reading Fluency and the Science of Reading

The role of fluency instruction in helping students read with accuracy, automaticity, expression, and stronger comprehension.

Reading Progress in Practice

How AI-supported reading tools can help teachers better understand student progress and support reading growth.

Give Teachers the Best Professional Books!

Why strong professional resources matter for helping teachers support students across varied reading levels.

The Myth of the “Best” Colleges

A reflection on college choice, challenging the pressure to pursue elite schools as the only path to success.

The Art and Science of Teaching Reading

A thoughtful look at how effective reading instruction blends research-based practice with creativity, craft, and joy.

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Articles

Fluency

The Power of Fluency Development Lessons at Ana Grace Middle School

Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap

The Fluency Development Lesson: Where Albert & Pablo Hang Out

Reading Fluency and the Science of Reading

Game Day Fluency

Scientific and Artful Reading Intervention in 7th Grade

Using Rapid Recognition Charts

A Proven Fluency Intervention: Read Two Impress

A Reading Fluency Intervention In the UK

Impact of Adapted Whole Class Fluency Development Lessons in Upper Elementary Grades

Choral Reading for Prosody in the Secondary Classroom

Increasing Reading Fluency for Middle and High School Students

A Little Latin and a Whole Lot of English

Fast Start - The Effects of Fast Start Reading

Fast Start - Getting Parents and Children Off to a Strong Start in Reading

Fast Start - A 3-Year Study of a School-Based Parental Involvement Program in Early Literacy

Impact of Short-Term Intense Fluency Instruction on Students’ Reading Achievement: A Classroom-based, Teacher-Initiated Research Study

Why Reading Fluency Should be Hot

A Focus on Fluency: How one teacher incorporated fluency with her reading curriculum

Building Fluency through the Phrased Text Lesson

Poems, Performance & Song

Teaching Fluency with Poetry: A weekly Routine

Because It’s Poetry

Using Poetry & Repeated Readings to Promote Fluency

BEATBOXING as a Tool for Literacy

Reader’s Theater for Older Students

Watch the Words Dance Out: Music and Reading Fluency Practice

Singing and Reading in a Preschool Classroom

A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflections on the Power of Song in Teaching Early Reading

Rock n Read by Ann Kay

The Power of Poetry by David Harrison

Poetry Packs a Punch by Lois Letchford

What's The Perfect Text for Struggling Readers? Try Poetry!

Word Study

Word Ladders for the Win!

Word Ladders in My Second Grade Classroom: Ten Minutes of Engaging and Productive Word Study Every Day

Building Vocabulary in Summer School

How is the Base of a Latin Verb Determined?

Building Vocabulary with Word Roots Builds Reading Comprehension

Connecting the Dots Between Interactive Writing and Decodable Texts: Literacy Solutions/Lasting Impact

Educational Leadership - The Roots of Comprehension

Word Harvesting: Using Authentic Literature as the Source for Vocabulary Learning

Can Latin Help Younger Students Build Vocabulary?

Struggling Readers

From Struggles to Solutions: How Dyslexia Fueled the Creation of Boon-dah Learning to Empower Young Minds

Scientific and Artful Reading Intervention in 7th Grade

A Stroke of Ill-Fate: From Literacy Expert to Struggling Student

Lessons Learned From My Granddaughter by Laura Robb

Who Wants to Be a (Reading) Millionaire?

Delivering Supportive Fluency Instruction - Especially for Students Who Struggle

Readers Who Struggle: Why Many Struggle and a Modest Proposal for Improving Their Reading

Stories

How I Learned to Read

Becoming My Dad

A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflections on the Power of Song in Teaching Early Reading

Watch the Words Dance Out: Music and Reading Fluency Practice

Lessons Learned From My Granddaughter by Laura Robb

Freedom and Independence Through Literacy

Professional Learning

How Misunderstandings of Text Complexity May Have Widened the Achievement Gap

On the Latest Obsession with Phonics

Reading Fluency and the Science of Reading

Reading Progress in Practice

Give Teachers the Best Professional Books!

The Myth of the “Best” Colleges

The Art and Science of Teaching Reading