Build Reading Fluency - (Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance) 2nd Edition by Timothy Rasinski & Chase Young (Paperback)

About the Book

Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with strategies to include fluency instruction into daily reading routines to improve reading comprehension.

Book Synopsis

Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into reading instruction! This professional resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Written by literacy experts Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this book offers instructional strategies to help teachers understand fluency and how to teach it. With step-by-step strategies, detailed lessons, and ideas for improving fluency, this meaningful guide allows teachers to provide purposeful reading opportunities for their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this professional resource!

Review Quotes

"Build Reading Fluency is a great resource to connect the ideas of reading instruction, assessment, and joy."-- "MiddleWeb"

"If you're a teacher, then you're dealing with issues of fluency in your classroom daily. No matter what the curricular area, your students can increase their comprehension when you address fluency. Rasinski and Young realize this, and the fluency-enhancing techniques they suggest are both appropriate and necessary. This practical book is a 'must have' for every educator."--Joseph S. Pizzo, Integrated Language Arts Teacher, Black River Middle School, Chester, NJ and Adjunct Professor, Centenary University, Hackettstown, NJ

"Unreservedly recommended."-- "Library Bookwatch"

"Why practice? Of course, the answer is to become proficient, skilled, or fluent at something. What if reading is that something? No worries, because in the second edition of their text, Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young show us how to support the development of reading proficiency by promoting one's reading fluency through practice and performance with engaging texts. They clarify that reading fluency is not speed reading but rather the ability to accurately and effortlessly read the words contained in a text with appropriate phrasing and expression. If you are wondering how to support readers' fluency development, you will leave this text knowing the role reader's theatre plays in this. You'll also gain a vision of yourself as a fluency coach who uses the shared songs, scripts, texts, instructional schedules, assessment ideas, and classroom vignettes to enable students to become fluent readers who have developed the bridge from phonics or word recognition to comprehension. Your instructional performance will certainly be expanded. This text is a must for beginning and experienced teachers."--Diane Lapp, Distinguished Professor of Education, San Diego State University

About the Author

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Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award-winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best-selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co-authored many resources for Shell Education including Building Vocabulary with Greek and Latin Roots: A Professional Guide to Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Development, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, Weekly Word Roots: 52 Quick Activities for Building Vocabulary, Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More, as well as Teacher Created Material's curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series.

Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and was named one of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world. His major interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame and was awarded the International Literacy Association's highest honor--the William S. Gray Citation of Merit--for his contributions to the field of literacy.

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Chase Young, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at Sam Houston State University. He is an editor of Literacy Research and Instruction, previously served as editor of the Texas Journal of Literacy Education, and is founding editor of the Journal of Teacher Action Research. A former elementary school teacher and reading specialist, Dr. Young's research focuses on developing reading fluency and supporting struggling readers.