Volume 3, Edition 5 – Teaching Fluency through “Fluency Idol”

Welcome to this edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching fluency using performance.

It can be scary for elementary students to work on their oral reading fluency, especially if they are struggling readers. In an article for The Reading Teacher, a pair of researchers from Hood College and a Maryland 2nd grade teacher teamed up to use pop culture as a way to build students’ fluency.

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