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September 2006
Fluency Instruction: Best Practices for Older Readers

“Fluency for upper elementary and the middle grades? Forget about it. Upper elementary and middle grade teachers have bigger fish to fry, right? Wrong!"
   —Timothy Rasinski





November/December 2005

Working Through Challenging Texts

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CONTENTS
Feature
Reading Fluency for Adolescents: Should We Care?
by Timothy Rasinski
 
Classroom Vignettes
Fluency in the High School Classroom: One Teacher's Method
by Marcia W. Punsalan
 
Reader's Theater: A Strategy to Make Social Studies Click
by Regina Rees and Mary Lou DiPillo
 
Student Voices
Recalling a Time When a Teacher Read Aloud
 
A Look at the OGT
Building Reading Stamina
by Carol Brown Dodson
 
For Your Bookshelf
Books by Rasinski, Rasinski & Padak, Samuels & Farstrup, Johns & Berglund, and Brand & Brand
by Sheila Cantlebary
 
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