Publisher's Synopsis
Learn to enhance your assessment and teaching of fluency!
Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First-phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on fluency, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom.
How to make Fluency work for you!
- Consider recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting students' desire to learn to read and write.
- Read about the findings of current key research studies and learn about their implications for classroom practice.
- Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change.
- Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues.
- Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.
Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Fluency!
"This book is a godsend! The professional development section of each chapter encourages teachers to reflect upon their current practices and actually make an action plan for improving their practices…This book will make a great book study for literacy coaches to do with their teachers."
-Tracy Hendrix, Literacy Coach, Carnesville Elementary School, Carnesville, GA
Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading series:
A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness
©2008 | ISBN: 0-205-45628-6
A Professional Development Guideto Phonics
©2008 | ISBN: 0-205-45630-8
A Professional Development Guideto Vocabulary
©2008 | ISBN: 0-205-45631-6
A Professional Development Guideto Comprehension
©2008 | ISBN: 0-205-45627-8
