This article discusses literature related to the role of fluency in reading and research-based strategies for fostering fluency with struggling readers. It talks about Readers Theatre as a strategy for developing fluency and discusses the findings of a study win which a third grade teacher uses Readers THeatre
Interactive graphic organizers! This is great because students who have difficulty writing can use these interactive writings to help creating notes and take down information. This is also a great research tool, when you have students go online to look for more information for a research project.
Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms features almost 40 clips of Common-Core aligned teaching and learning. Captured scenes of classroom teaching in an effort to help you imagine methods of teaching that can support students in moving towards the ambitious standards set by the Common Core.
This article talks about mentoring programs where adults bring animals into the classroom and the student reads to the animal. Animals are comforting and non-judgemental and reading to an animal can improve fluency and reading ability by taking the focus of the child and putting focus on reading to and teaching the animal.
Sometimes when doing a retell of a narrative or expository text, , a student will make errors. These errors can lend insight to their reading behaviors. This article discusses this.
This article discusses a collaborative project between the School of LIbrary and Information Science and College of Education at the University of South FLorida and an elementary school in Tampa, Florida. Students were exposed to different cultural versions of the "cinderella" story. Students became increasingly interested in other cultures as a result
