Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases Grade 3

by Timothy Rasinski, Edward Fry, Kathleen Knoblock

Overview

Practice makes perfect! Build students' oral reading skills with these engaging lessons. Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and reference list of oral reading strategies are included to support learning success. Based on Dr. Timothy's expert fluency research and Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Words, this resource is aligned with college and career readiness standards and provides an important reading foundation. An Audio CD with oral readings of phrases and reading selections is included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781425802783
Publisher:	Shell Education
Publication date:	07/11/2007
Series:	Increasing Fluency Using High Frequency Word Phrases
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award—winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best—selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co—authored many resources for Shell Education including, but not limited to, Greek & Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content—Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, as well as TCM’s curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series.

Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well—known presenter nationwide and in 2021 and 2023 was named one of the top 2% most—citied scientists in the world. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served a three—year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co—editor of The Reading Teacher, the world’s most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co—editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski is a former president of the College Reading Association and has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame, and in 2019 Dr. Rasinski was recipient of the International Literacy Association’s highest honor—the William S. Gray Citation of Merit—for his contributions to the field of literacy.

Table of Contents

Standards Correlations     4
Introducing the Developers     5
How to Increase Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases     6
How to Use This Book     7
Techniques for Engaging Students in Oral Reading     11
A Three-Component Rubric for Assessing Fluency     12
Lesson Plans     13
Answer Key     93
References     96