Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success

The speed drills are quick, easy to manage in small groups and help students reach attainable goals.

This book offers many practical lessons to help students become more fluent readers. Great suggestions and charts for students to record their progress. Teacher friendly!

This is a must have for teachers. It is full of wonderful fluency building activities. It provides lots of passages for use in your classroom. It also provides some really good assessments.

This book is wonderfully straightforward and immediately applicable in your classroom. It clearly explains the why and the how so you can target this area of reading instruction which is often neglected. It is a quick read and the suggestions are easy to implement without a large investment of time or money. The activities suggested are meaningful, not cutesy, and the assessment suggestions are authentic. Also, the book suggests ways to allow students to track their own progress. This would complement whatever reading program you use; whether basal, 4-blocks, or balanced literacy.