Over the last 40-plus years, my work has been trying to make fluency a more central element of our reading curriculum. Connie Juel conducted research years ago that found that if children are not ...

Reading fluency is one of them ... instruction can be implemented simultaneously with phonics as early as 1st grade and that fluency and phonics instruction can support each other.

Abilene School Board members received a comprehensive look at academic growth across grade levels in reading and math at their June meeting. Assistant Superintendent Dana Sprinkle presented the Spring ...

One area where families can help is with reading, and one tip I share is to help with reading fluency. It’s a skill ... Each day should have a different focus. First, you can work on accuracy.

"If a student leaves kindergarten or first grade without knowing their ... lawmakerssay they are focused on improving third-grade reading fluency, making it a target of Oregon's Student Success ...

"Since the first reading assessment in 1992, there’s been no growth for the lowest-performing students in either fourth or eighth grade," Carr ... practice reading fluency and developing ...

The first full school year with implementation of the Third Grade Success Act has wrapped ... individual sounds in words), vocabulary, fluency (reading accurately, quickly and with expression ...