Authors: Richard L. Allington
ISBN-13: 9780205570584, ISBN-10: 0205570585
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: 1st Edition
Richard L. Allington is past-president of the International Reading Association and of the National Reading Conference. Dick Allington has been studying and writing about fluency since his 1983 "classic" Reading Teacher article, Fluency: The neglected reading goal. He is author of over 100 published papers and reports on reading difficulties and the author of a number of books including What Really Matters for Struggling Readers (Allyn & Bacon)and Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence (Heinemann). He is coauthor of Schools that Work, Classrooms that Work (both Allyn & Bacon), and Reading to Learn: Lessons from Exemplary 4th Grade Classrooms (The Guildford Press). Dick is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and federal programs director.
Fluency has risen to the top of today’s instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is still unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student’s fluency development in his book What Really Matters in Fluency. Unlike any other book on the topic of fluency, Dick Allington provides a research-base that supports wide, free voluntary reading as an overlooked component in the development of reading fluency along with implications this has for planning fluency interventions. In addition, Dick provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit fluency growth and a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into fluent and achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to teach fluency!
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Preface v
The What Really Matters Series vi
What Is Fluency and Why Is It "Hot"? 1
How Is Fluency Normally Developed? 15
Why Do Some Readers Struggle with Fluency? 33
How Should Fluency Be Assessed? 49
Fostering the Development of Fluent Readers in Core Reading Lessons 75
Interventions to Foster Fluency Development in Struggling Readers 91
Afterword 111
Reproducibles 113
Dolch Sight Word List 123
Book Study Guide for What Really Matters in Fluency 125
Bibliography 131
Index 137