Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines.
Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, 2nd Edition includes:
- Research-based instruction and assessment from the science of reading
- Strategies for boosting reading skills and reading comprehension
- Resources and ideas for organizing a reader’s theater program
- Suggestions for family and student engagement
- Tips to Ponder with each chapter
Written by Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this second edition is updated throughout with new instructional strategies and interventions. These two educators have combined their expertise in fluency, literacy, and reader’s theater to create a meaningful guide for teachers to provide authentic purposeful reading opportunities for their students. With this book, teachers have all the tools they need to improve fluency, vocabulary, and automaticity in their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this relevant resource!
Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award-winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best-selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co-authored many resources for Shell Education including, but not limited to, Greek & Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, as well as TCM's curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series. Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and in 2021 and 2023 was named one of the top 2% most-citied scientists in the world. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski is a former president of the College Reading Association and has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame, and in 2019 Dr. Rasinski was recipient of the International Literacy Association's highest honor—the William S. Gray Citation of Merit—for his contributions to the field of literacy.
