Fluency Through Practice and Performance (Building Fluency)

Timothy Rasinski; Lorraine Griffith

ISBN 10: 1425802621 / ISBN 13: 9781425802622

Published by Shell Education, 2010

About this Item

The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fluency Through Practice and Performance (Building Fluency)
• Publisher: Shell Education
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425802621
• ISBN 13: 9781425802622
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Discover engaging and practical strategies for incorporating fluency instruction into your daily reading routines. This resource provides teachers with step-by-step processes for teaching fluency, a continuum of lessons that gradually release responsibility to the student, tips for family involvement, and ideas for community-building with other classrooms. Incorporate this research- and standards-based resource into instruction today and help all students become fluent readers!

About the Authors

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Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award-winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best-selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co-authored many resources for Shell Education including Building Vocabulary with Greek and Latin Roots: A Professional Guide to Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Development, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, Weekly Word Roots: 52 Quick Activities for Building Vocabulary, Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, as well as Teacher Created Material’s curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series.

Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and was named one of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world. His major interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world’s most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame and was awarded the International Literacy Association’s highest honor―the William S. Gray Citation of Merit―for his contributions to the field of literacy.

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Lorraine Griffith, M.A.Ed., is a teacher and has also been conducting classroom action research in the area of reading fluency with Dr. Timothy Rasinski in a 4th grade classroom.