Creating Fluent Readers

Effective, meaningful, ready-to-use strategies for building reading proficiency, boosting comprehension, and improving fluency!

• Deepen your understanding of word decoding, reading fluency, and comprehension.
• Explore exciting and motivating word-building activities.
• Learn ways to effectively teach sight-word recognition across all grade levels.
• Encourage all your learners to become independent, fluent readers through modeled, shared and choral reading exercises.
• Promote reading fluency and increase student reading rates using repeated reading techniques.
• Discover how Readers' Theater can provide a powerful and interactive experience for achieving fluency in all your students.
• Learn valid, proven, and simple assessment strategies to measure student achievement and growth, while meeting the standards.
• Engage your students in higher-order thinking skills throughout your reading instruction.
• Learn how to develop synergistic instruction in phonics and fluency.
• Take advantage of nonfiction text structures to enhance your lesson plans, improve comprehension, and increase fluency.
• Walk away with innovative classroom management ideas for supporting your struggling learners while challenging your high achievers.

Presenter: Tim Rasinski, Ph.D.
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