Description

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Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into reading instruction! This professional resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Written by literacy experts Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this book offers instructional strategies to help teachers understand fluency and how to teach it. With step-by-step strategies, detailed lessons, and ideas for improving fluency, this meaningful guide allows teachers to provide purposeful reading opportunities for their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this professional resource!

About the Author

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David Harrison, Litt. D, is a nationally acclaimed author and poet. He has written more than seventy-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers and has been anthologized in countless others. His work has been translated into twelve languages and has been aired on television, radio, podcast, and video stream. David has authored many professional and classroom resources for teachers, including Partner Poems for Building Fluency: 40 Engaging Poems for Two Voices with Motivating Activities That Help Students Improve Their Fluency and Comprehension with Timothy Rasinski and Gay Fawcett. He has even created a video series, Let's Write This Week with David Harrison, that brings writing tips into the elementary classroom and offers graduate college credit for teachers. David holds degrees from Drury University and Emory University and holds honorary doctorates of letters from Missouri State University and Drury University where he is the current poet laureate. David Harrison Elementary School is named in his honor.

Praise For…

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“Unreservedly recommended.”
— Library Bookwatch

"If you’re a teacher, then you’re dealing with issues of fluency in your classroom daily. No matter what the curricular area, your students can increase their comprehension when you address fluency. Rasinski and Young realize this, and the fluency-enhancing techniques they suggest are both appropriate and necessary. This practical book is a “must have” for every educator."
— Joseph S. Pizzo, Integrated Language Arts Teacher, Black River Middle School, Chester, NJ and Adjunct Professor, Centenary University, Hackettstown, NJ

"Why practice? Of course, the answer is to become proficient, skilled, or fluent at something. What if reading is that something? No worries, because in the second edition of their text, Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader’s Theater and More, Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young show us how to support the development of reading proficiency by promoting one’s reading fluency through practice and performance with engaging texts. They clarify that reading fluency is not speed reading but rather the ability to accurately and effortlessly read the words contained in a text with appropriate phrasing and expression. If you are wondering how to support readers’ fluency development, you will leave this text knowing the role reader’s theatre plays in this. You’ll also gain a vision of yourself as a fluency coach who uses the shared songs, scripts, texts, instructional schedules, assessment ideas, and classroom vignettes to enable students to become fluent readers who have developed the bridge from phonics or word recognition to comprehension. Your instructional performance will certainly be expanded. This text is a must for beginning and experienced teachers."
— Diane Lapp, Distinguished Professor of Education, San Diego State University