The Megabook of Fluency: Strategies and Text to Engage All Readers

by Timothy V. Rasinski, Melissa Cheesman Smith

Overview

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency- and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition-the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338257014
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/16/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award winning reading clinic. He has written over 200 articles and has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best selling books on reading fluency The Fluent Reader and The Fluent Reader in Action, published by Scholastic, now in its second edition. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim is the first author of the fluency chapter for Volume IV of the Handbook of Reading Research.