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The Fluent Reader

A powerful new book to teach reading in a lively, interactive way. It opens with a clear research-based rationale for teaching oral reading, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension. From there, Rasinski provides the strategies themselves - read aloud, repeated reading, performance reading, and many more.

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The strategies are fun, easy to implement, and — most important — effective in helping children read with ease, confidence, and understanding.

Praise for The Fluent Reader:

"What I find remarkable about The Fluent Reader is the way Timothy Rasinski leads us from the theoretical to the practical...I suspect that teachers who read this book will be quick to take the ideas and apply them in their classrooms." —From the foreword by James Hoffman, University of Texas at Austin

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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