Description: Help your struggling readers read quickly enough and well enough to keep up with their grade-level peers by training the underlying processes of naming-speed, word recognition, and semantics. When instruction in phonological awareness and decoding skill just isn't enough, this extensive resource provides important information and strategies to help non-fluent readers increase their speed and smoothness of reading. Strategies and activities are provided for these skill areas: -speed of reading written letter patterns -speed of reading syllable and word patterns -decoding multi-syllabic words -recognizing sight words -building word retrieval, semantics, and vocabulary -speed of reading connected text You'll have page after page of activities to promote reading fluency, including: -rhymes -silly stories -word retrieval tasks -vocabulary webs -speed drills -card games -vocabulary webs -repeat reading -echo reading -prosody A chapter on assessment presents information on testing instruments commonly used to assess all components of reading and related underlying skills. The chapter also helps to identify which students have a reading fluency disorder.

Series: the Source

Author: SWIGERT, Nancy

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2004

Grade: G1- Adult

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE

Components: 273pp

Keywords: reading fluency;