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Students who struggle with fluency may read slowly, in a monotone, ignoring punctuation, or in choppy start-and-stop rhythms. Support these students with tools that allow for repeated readings and performance, and model expressive reading with audiobooks, e-books, and your own live readings.

Listen to a Reader’s Theater performance of The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken.

Reading expert Linda Farrell helps Michael master the ‘silent e’ pattern to help him become a more accurate and ultimately more fluent reader.

Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Calista, an early stage reader, on short vowel sounds, blending and manipulating sounds, reading whole words, and fluency.

An after-school program called RAVE-O helps to teach reading fluency in Malden, Massachusetts.

In this online lesson, reading expert Linda Farrell helps second grader Chloe master the three key elements of reading fluency.

This program highlights successful strategies for helping children become fluent readers and shows how early testing and intervention can help struggling readers. 

Reading with appropriate expression is a skill that develops over time as your child grows in confidence with their reading.

Literacy expert Kegi Wells explains that what’s most important is if your child understands what she’s reading.

Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.