The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

For typically developing readers, fluency—or the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression—is often simply a product of practice. Having mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a ...

When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression ...

Welcome to Teaching in Room 9, the area's largest classroom. I'm Mrs. Forth from the Rockwood School District. We're gonna have a lot of fun this week talking about fluency. That's right, we're really ...

Many parents assume that learning to read is something that happens mainly at school, through formal instruction and phonics ...

The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

At an AEI Education event last week, Doug Lemov, author of the international bestseller Teach Like a Champion, made a forceful case for restoring long-form reading to the center of classroom practice.

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...