Volume 1, Issue 17 – Increasing Reading Rates for Struggling Readers

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of increasing reading rates for struggling readers.

Teachers try numerous strategies to help struggling readers get up to speed. In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, researchers from the University of California-Riverside discuss the results of a study seeking to understand what conditions create maximum reading fluency gains for struggling readers.

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