Back to School Books
I started organizing all of my books a few weeks ago. I have MASSIVE amounts of books from when I was in the classroom. I actually got rid of/ donated several boxes to a friend [...]
Building Better Readers: Resources For Practicing Fluency
So now you have the WHY you need to teach fluency, and the STRATEGIES for teaching fluency, but how about some TOOLS for practicing fluency? Let's talk about some FREE resources and tools for teaching [...]
Building Better Readers: Teaching Strategies for Fluency
Yesterday we talked about what fluency is and what it is not and the WHY we should be teaching it explicitly. Today we are going to dive into the meat and potatoes: the actual strategies [...]
Building Better Readers: Revisiting Fluency
I recently ran across an article from Education Week (May 2015) about fluency. I really thought it was fascinating. When I was working on my Master's in 2007, I did some formative research in my classroom [...]