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Blog Teaching Tip of the Week Teaching Kids to Improve Their Reading Fluency (Teaching Tip #96)
Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:45
Teaching Kids to Improve Their Reading Fluency (Teaching Tip #96)
Written byIn this Teaching Tip I provide a link to a short YouTube video I created. The video features a movement-oriented strategy that I use in my classroom to help students improve their reading fluency. I call the strategy “Reading Around the Room.†This activity was inspired by an idea described in Marcia Tate’s terrific book, Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites. I particularly recommend this strategy for children who have the tendency to read through commas, periods, and other end punctuation and, as a result, have difficulty with comprehension. Doing this activity for a few minutes per day over a period of days will make an important difference in children’s ability to read with fluency. Give these ideas a try in class with your students or at home with your children.
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