Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.47
EAN: 9780205570584
ISBN: 0205570585
Label: Allyn & Bacon
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: April 03, 2008
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Sales Rank: 19965
Studio: Allyn & Bacon

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Fluency has risen to the top of today's instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is still unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student's fluency development in his book What Really Matters in Fluency. Unlike any other book on the topic of fluency, Dick Allington provides a research-base that supports wide, free voluntary reading as an overlooked component in the development of reading fluency along with implications this has for planning fluency interventions. In addition, Dick provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit fluency growth and a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into fluent and achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to teach fluency! Take a look inside...*Provides a complete review of the theoretical foundations of fluency development.* Details the difference between fluency and simple rapid reading to provide teachers with background knowledge of what fluency is, how it develops, and why it is important. *Features a complete analysis of today's popular fluency assessments and their limitations and offers a detailed framework for developing techniques for monitoring fluency development. *Presents teachers with friendly tools for assessing and monitoring fluency development and the instructional conditions that foster it. *Includes numerous websites that provide teacher-friendly information, strategies, and tools for fluency instruction.




Rating: - Essential Information for All Who Teach Reading
Richard Allington consolidates the research and with his usual easy to read literary style clarifies the issues surrounding fluency instruction. From definitions to assessments, his user friendly book provides answers to the questions many literacy professionals have been asking.

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Rating: - Voluntary reading as an overlooked aspect of reading fluency
The ability to read easily, accurately, and with good retention of content is an indispensable building block to a successful academic career throughout all grade primary and secondary grade levels. In "What Really Matters In Fluency: Research-Based Practices Across The Curriculum", Richard Allington (a past president of the International Reading Association and the national Reading Conference) draws upon his years of expertise (including having authored more than one hundred published papers on ... Read More

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