Fluency expert Tim Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith,a veteran teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluencywork into their daily reading instruction.
Fluency expert Tim Rasinski teams up with Melissa CheesmanSmith, a veteran teacher, to help teachers effectively weavefluency work into their daily reading instruction.The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessmentscale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasingand tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more!Given the importance of fluency- and its pivotal relationshipto comprehension and word recognition - the potential is high forimproving students' overall reading achievement, and their performancein other content areas."I am a longstanding fanof The Megabook of Fluency. For schools lookingto teach fluency rather than purely assess it, this is the must-havetext." Rachel Clarke, Independent ReadingConsultant
Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award winning reading clinic. He has written over 200 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best selling books on reading fluency The Fluent Reader and The Fluent Reader in Action, published by Scholastic, now in its second edition. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim is the first author of the fluency chapter for Volume IV of the Handbook of Reading Research.
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