I recently wrote a piece about reading fluency instruction for our special report on early literacy. Sometimes I’m asked how I come up with ideas for articles. And while the majority are based on news ...

Teachers in all content areas can create opportunities for fluency practice to help get students reading fluidly and ...

For typically developing readers, fluency—or the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression—is often simply a product of practice. Having mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a ...

Welcome to Teaching in Room 9, the area's largest classroom. I'm Mrs. Forth from the Rockwood School District. We're gonna have a lot of fun this week talking about fluency. That's right, we're really ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at ...

We keep hearing about “Direct Instruction” but what does it actually mean? Flickr/Judy Baxter, CC BY-SA Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused ...

We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read. As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas. But ...