Articles on Teaching Fluency

Using Readers Theater with ESL Students

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ESL-Readers Theater for Reading Improvement.doc (44.4 KB)
Cindy McPhail describes how she helped a class of bilingual sixth graders significantly improve
their reading comprehension and become more willing to speak in front of the class. Essential
Teacher, September 2008. See the correct reference for the article below.

McPhail, C. (2008). Reader's theater for reading improvement. Essential Teacher, 5(3).
Retrieved from http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=1929&DID=11490

Article: Word Study Instruction
Williams, C. (2009). Word study instruction in the K2 classroom. The Reading Teacher, 62(7),
570-578.

A Focus on Fluency
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A focus on fluency.pdf (2.386 MB)

Griffith, L. W. & Rasinski, T. V. ( 2004). A focus on fluency: How one teacher incorporated
fluency with her reading curriculum. The Reading Teacher, 58(2), 126-137.

Incorporating movement with fluency instruction
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Incorporating Movement with Fluency Instruction.pdf (78.673 KB)
Peebles, J. L. (2007). Incorporating movement with fluency instruction: A motivation for
struggling readers. The Reading Teacher, 60(6), 578-581.