The Megabook of Fluency - Softcover

Rasinski, Timothy V.; Cheesman Smith, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1338257013 ISBN 13: 9781338257014

Publisher: Scholastic Professional, 2018

Synopsis

All the latest research on fluency plus dozens of practical lessons and ready-to-use fluency-priming tools, including partner poems, word ladders, and more!

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency― and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition―the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

About this title

About the Authors

Timothy Rasinski, professor emeritus at Kent State University, is a leading expert in reading fluency with over 250 articles and 50+ books to his name, including The Fluent Reader and The Megabook of Fluency. His research has been widely published and cited by major literacy organizations, earning him numerous accolades, including induction into the International Reading Hall of Fame and recognition as one of the world’s top 2% of scientists. A former classroom teacher, Rasinski brings decades of experience to his work supporting struggling readers.

Melissa Cheesman Smith is an experienced elementary educator, teacher mentor, and author of over a dozen literacy books, including The Megabook of Fluency and Daily Word Ladders series, co-authored with Timothy Rasinski. She holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, has taught college-level literacy courses, and presents nationally on fluency, vocabulary, writing, and teacher development.

From the Back Cover

The connection between reading comprehension, word recognition, and fluency is undeniable. Research shows that the better students can read orally, the more deeply they understand and enjoy what they read. That's why The Megabook of Fluency is so important. You'll find:

• An overview of fluency - its true meaning and benefits to readers
• Over 50 ready-to-use strategies, organized around the authors' proven EARS framework: Expression, Automatic Word Recognition, Rhythm and Phrasing, and Smoothness.
• Over 200 supporting student pages: poems, speeches, rhymes, and more
• Assessment tolls organized around the EARS framework
• Support for reading at home - fluency fun for the entire family!
• A format that helps you find hte material you want, quickly and easiliy

From the Inside Flap

Dear Reader,

As you probably know all too well, books for educators tend to fall into two categories: research-informed professional books and classroom-ready activity books.

Now imagine a book that is both research-informed and classroom-ready. Or, as we call it, a "Megabook!"

The books in our exciting new Megabook series are colorful, lively, and inviting - offering up one easy-to-use instructional strategy after another, with the navigational features you need to find what you need, when you need it. No scrounging for usable text! Megabooks are guaranteed to energize your teaching!

What's more, Megabooks are written by venerable scholars - including Reading Hall of Famers, NCTE OUtstanding Elementary Educators in English Language Arts, and exemplary research-award winners. Their research frames our understanding of teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment, and also undergirds policy and standards, while guiding generations of educators. The teaching ideas in every Megabook are field tested, assuring you that they are both engaging and theoretically sound.

Megabooks also feature the word of outstanding practitioners, leader in their schools and district, who help their colleagues read new heights of understanding.

So, from our desks to yours, we wish you rich reading, inspired teaching, and engaged students who love coming to your classroom to learn.

Here's to your professional learning and teaching success,

Lois Bridges

Ray Coutu

Sarah D. Longhi

Shelley Griffin

The Scholastic Professional Editorial Team

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Professional
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1338257013
• ISBN 13: 9781338257014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320