Increasing Your Students' Reading Fluency: Strategies That Work, Grades 1-3

Increasing Your Students' Reading Fluency: Strategies That Work, Grades 1-3

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Fluency is specifically identified as a fundamental component of overall reading proficiency. But all too often students are expected to become fluent readers without the benefit of instruction directly targeted to this essential literacy skill.

When teachers include fluency instruction in their literacy programs, they help children become more effective readers. Students in grades 1-3 who read fluently are able to focus most of their attention on comprehending the text. Lessons and activities that strengthen children’s reading rate, phrasing, intonation, and expression move students beyond word-by-word decoding to an understanding of the content of their reading. Through modeling, assessing, and teaching skills of fluency, teachers make it possible for their students to become more fluent readers.

This video training program will help you implement a wide variety of fluency-boosting lessons, strategies, and activities for primary-grade students. You’ll see national trainer Diane Murphy and other experienced primary teachers working directly with young students, demonstrating ways to improve children’s reading rate, expression, phrasing, and intonation. The program includes time-effective ways to assess fluency skills and a variety of specific lessons on text clues, phrasing, emphasis, and expression. These fluency activities can be integrated very easily into your existing reading instruction and will help you better meet the literacy needs of your students, grades 1-3.

Learn how to:

effectively model and teach components of fluent reading during daily read-aloud

maximize students' classroom oral reading with a focus on fluency growth

strengthen students’ reading expression, intonation and phrasing using highly engaging echo and choral reading strategies

assess students' reading fluency in practical, easy-to-implement ways

boost specific skills of fluency with targeted, direct instruction

scaffold the fluency growth of struggling readers using classroom-proven, time-efficient techniques

motivate students to increase their reading fluency through engagement in different types of performance-style reading activities

make optimal use of focused mini-lessons on text clues, phrasing, emphasis, and expression

increase students’ reading comprehension and enjoyment by improving their overall reading fluency

The lessons and activities in this video take place in real classrooms. You will see how to implement effective fluency-boosting strategies that will help your own students become more fluent, expressive readers with higher levels of reading comprehension.

RESOURCE GUIDE

Included with this video training program is a Resource Guide that contains background information, narrative descriptions of all demonstrated lessons, strategies and activities, a listing of resource materials, and blackline masters and resources needed to implement fluency instruction in primary classrooms.

The Resource Guide is designed both for trainers and for individuals interested in self-study.

Trainers will find session outlines and all the blackline masters they need to conduct workshops. A special section is devoted to guiding individual teachers or teacher teams through self-study of the material, making this program an ideal addition to your staff development library.

This program features national trainer Diane Murphy.

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Each individual video program in U.S. funds costs $379.00 plus 5% shipping and handling.
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Each individual video program in Canadian funds costs $379.00 plus 12% shipping and handling.

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