Teaching Reading Mastering The Fundamentals Guide 2 Oral Reading Fluency Sight Word Recognition

Teaching Reading: Mastering the Fundamentals, Guide #2 Oral Reading Fluency & Sight Word Recognition

From acclaimed educators and best-selling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey comes Teaching Reading: Mastering the Fundamentals, a series of four laminated guides that provide teachers with essential information and strategies for teaching students in grades K-6 how to read. The guides, which are designed to be used sequentially as a set but can also be stand-alone resources for targeting certain components of teaching reading, draw from the latest research and present practical, powerful strategies that teachers can utilize right away in their classrooms. This guide, #2 in the series, focuses on methods for building the reading fluency of elementary students to foster comprehension. Readers will learn about: reading fluency terms measures of oral reading fluency using oral fluency norms to guide instruction and intervention measures of prosody six techniques for teaching fluency profiles of disfluent readers fluency interventions for disfluent readers sight word recognition high-frequency words sight word techniques using flashcards effectively heart words common mistakes to avoid

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