EDUCATIONAL LINKS: FLUENCY


Educators who want to know more about evidence-based reading instruction topics can find accurate and current information on the over 150 sites included on these lists. While we are providing this list of relevant educational links as a service to the educational community, we do not endorse nor do we have any association with these sites.

If you have an educational web site and would like us to add your site to this list, please send us an e-mail so we can review your content. Correspondence may be sent to: Dr. Susan Tancock, Professor — Department of Elementary Education, Ball State University — stancock@bsu.edu


FLUENCY INTERNET RESOURCES

Teaching Fluency — Research and commentary on the importance and complexity of teaching fluency

Reading Rockets Fluency Links

Fluent Reading — Article with tips on how to support learning fluency

Johnson School’s School-wide Reading Effort — Article focused on instructional time, team, text, and tasks at one school-wide reading program

Developing Reading Fluency — Breaks down the direct and indirect approach

Official DIBELS Home Page — Uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy

Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theater Page — Scripts and tips for Reader’s theater

Fluency in Word Identification

Fluency in Beginning Reading — Why it’s important; how to teach it; how to assess it

5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency

A Focus on Fluency — The Pacific Resources for Education and Learning provides services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation

What is a Fluent Reader — Characteristics of a fluent reader

Knowledge Loom: Vocabulary — Technology tips and implications for English language learners

Oral Fluency Assessment Calculator for Grades 3-5

What Works in Fluency Instruction — Comments on guided oral reading and silent independent reading

Decoding/Fluency — Beginning decoding resources

Fluency and Learning to Read: The Reading Skills Pyramid

Reading Milestones — Milestones for second and third graders

How Fluently Do Our Children Read? — NAEP’s oral reading fluency scale and assessment

 



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