What Really Matters in Fluency: Research-based Practices across the Curriculum - Softcover

Allington, Richard L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205570585 ISBN 13: 9780205570584

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

Fluency has risen to the top of today’s instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is still unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student’s fluency development in his book What Really Matters in Fluency. Unlike any other book on the topic of fluency, Dick Allington provides a research-base that supports wide, free voluntary reading as an overlooked component in the development of reading fluency along with implications this has for planning fluency interventions. In addition, Dick provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit fluency growth and a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into fluent and achieving readers.  Teachers will be inspired and confident to teach fluency!

 

Take a look inside...

• Provides a complete review of the theoretical foundations of fluency development.
• Details the difference between fluency and simple rapid reading to provide teachers with background knowledge of what fluency is, how it develops, and why it is important.
• Features a complete analysis of today's popular fluency assessments and their limitations and offers a detailed framework for developing techniques for monitoring fluency development.
• Presents teachers with friendly tools for assessing and monitoring fluency development and the instructional conditions that foster it.
• Includes numerous websites that provide teacher-friendly information, strategies, and tools for fluency instruction.

About this title

From the Back Cover

 

Richard L. Allington

What Really Matters in Fluency

Research-based Practices across the Curriculum

 

Unlike any other approach, What Really Matters in Fluency stresses wide, voluntary reading as an overlooked part of reading fluency. Dick Allington’s teacher-friendly framework includes plans to implement this wide reading, fluency interventions, and tools for assessing and monitoring fluency development.  Presented alongside a comprehensive background of what fluency is, how it develops, and why it is important, these strategies give teachers the confidence to teach fluency effectively.

 

In their well-known and much welcomed thought-provoking style, Dick Allington and Pat Cunningham bring you the best research-based instructional advice available. Each of the brief and inexpensive books in the What Really Matters series features what Dick and Pat know about one aspect of teaching and learning to read independently with understanding. To learn more about the series see the inside front cover.  

 

 

“Once again, Allington delivers an insightful, practical book that enables the application of research to practice in the area of reading fluency. [His] years of work with teachers are reflected in his understanding of the kinds of assistance teachers need to make research-based changes in classrooms.”  —Pamela Williamson, University of Cincinnati, Ohio

 

“The authoritative treatment of the topic, [Allington’s] masterful explanations, the accessibility of the text, and a host of practical suggestions. . .make this book immensely appealing to teachers.”—Mary DeKonty Applegate, professor of education, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia

 

Richard Allington is a past president of the International Reading Association and of the National Reading Conference. He has written more than 100 published papers and reports on reading difficulties, and is the author or coauthor of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, Classrooms That Work, and Schools That Work. Dick is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and federal programs director who has studied and written about fluency since his classic 1983 article in Reading Teacher, "Fluency: The neglected goal."

About the Author

Richard L. Allington is past-president of the International Reading Association and of the National Reading Conference. Dick Allington has been studying and writing about fluency since his 1983 "classic" Reading Teacher article, Fluency: The neglected reading goal. He is author of over 100 published papers and reports on reading difficulties and the author of a number of books including What Really Matters for Struggling Readers (Allyn & Bacon)and Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence (Heinemann). He is coauthor of Schools that Work, Classrooms that Work (both Allyn & Bacon), and Reading to L earn: Lessons from Exemplary 4th Grade Classrooms (The Guildford Press). Dick is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and federal programs director.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0205570585
• ISBN 13: 9780205570584
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144