Ep. 210: How Can You Improve Fluency for Older Students? with Janee' Butler
Update: 2024-11-221
Description
Fluency is complex, especially for older students.
In this episode, Janee' Butler shares:
- how fluency instruction looks from early grades to secondary
- about challenges students and teachers face,
- practical strategies for improving fluency,
- a reminder not to forget about student motivation, especially for older students struggling with reading fluently.
The Big Takeway: Reading fluency is essential for older students to be able to comprehend what they read. Teachers need the knowledge of how to help each student!
Want to Learn More?
- Janee's presentation at PaTTAN Symposium 2024: Achieving Adolescent Literacy Proficiency: The Importance of Fluency
- Teaching Oral Reading Fluency to Older Students by Tim Shanahan
- Phonics and Spelling through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping by Catherine Grace
- Really Great Reading assessments (free)
- DIBELS assessments- 8th Edition (free)
- Plain Talk About Literacy & Learning Conference 2025
- email Janee': janee@mycll.org
We answer your questions about teaching reading in The Literacy 50-A Q&A Handbook for Teachers: Real-World Answers to Questions About Reading That Keep You Up at Night.
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