# fluency

## Articles

### [6 Don’ts for Increasing Students’ Reading Fluency](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/6-donts-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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/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,…*