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6 Don’ts for Increasing Students’ Reading Fluency

June 26, 2025 Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “Fluency in Learning to Read” by Katherine Garnett, in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith R. Birsh…

5 Reading Activities to Improve Your Students’ Fluency

December 5, 2024 Reading fluency is a vitally important element of reading success. As a teacher, you can help build students’ fluency with repeated reading activities—a great way for struggling readers to log…

5 Ideas for Enhancing Comprehension During Small-Group Instruction

October 10, 2024 Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from Smartt & Glaser’s Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction, Second Edition. Comprehension is the goal of reading. Reading comprehension, the act of deriving meaning from…

10 Tips for Improving Your Students’ Reading Fluency

August 13, 2024 Reading fluency improves with practice—but enticing struggling readers to read can present a real challenge for teachers. Because reading is not a task that struggling students usually choose to do,…