Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater and More

by Timothy Rasinski, Chase Young

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765903216
Publisher:	Shell Education
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Series:	Building Fluency through Practice and Performance
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 18 Years

About the Author

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, but not limited to, Greek & Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, 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, as well as TCM’s curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series.

Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and in 2021 and 2023 was named one of the top 2% most-citied scientists in the world. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served a three-year term 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 is a former president of the College Reading Association and has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame, and in 2019 Dr. Rasinski was recipient of the International Literacy Association’s highest honor—the William S. Gray Citation of Merit—for his contributions to the field of literacy.

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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

MiddleWeb

"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