Early Elementary Volume 1, Edition 1 – Improving Reading Fluency for Younger Students

Welcome to this edition of Best Practices Weekly: Early Elementary. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching reading fluency to younger students.

There is much more to reading fluency than just words read per minute. In an article for The Reading Teacher, a literacy teacher and a second grade teacher from Roosevelt Elementary in Park Ridge, Illinois create Poetry Power Man and a super hero gang of friends to combat Robot Readers and fight for fluency including addressing rate, expression, accuracy and learning.

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