Customer Reviews

Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success

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This book is wonderfully straightforward and immediately applicable in your classroom. It clearly explains the why and the how so you can target this area of reading instruction which is often neglected. It is a quick read and the suggestions are easy to implement without a large investment of time or money. The activities suggested are meaningful, not cutesy, and the assessment suggestions are authentic. Also, the book suggests ways to allow students to track their own progress. This would complement whatever reading program you use; whether basal, 4-blocks, or balanced literacy.

This is a must have for teachers. It is full of wonderful fluency building activities. It provides lots of passages for use in your classroom. It also provides some really good assessments.

Although the information in this book is useful, it is not the activity book that the shopper might be expecting. The fluency passages are too few, and the lower-level passages are reapeated twice on the page. While this makes duplication easy, it sacrifices additional fluency passage inclusion. Although some of the speed drills and word activities are useful, this book is a little light on content.

This book offers many practical lessons to help students become more fluent readers. Great suggestions and charts for students to record their progress. Teacher friendly!

The speed drills are quick, easy to manage in small groups and help students reach attainable goals.

This book has some good ideas, but it's not my favorite for working on fluency. My students enjoyed Perfect Poems for Fluency and Fluency Lessons much more.

Very helpful to a secondary teacher who is transitioning to elementary school and seeking, seeking, seeking. This text helped me to get a critical grasp on what needs to happen to assist readers in improving their fluency skills. Thank you so much for this text.