Effective Fluency Instruction for Skilled Reading | Teaching Channel

Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into reading instruction! This course will empower educators with the knowledge and tools to enhance reading fluency in their students. You’ll explore the latest research on how the brain learns to read and discover how decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency interconnect to create proficient readers. Gather evidence-based strategies focused on modeling, repeated reading, coaching, and understand how the inclusion of performance can support expression and prosody. To help pinpoint underlying skill gaps, you’ll investigate the use of assessments and learn how small group instruction can help differentiate learning, providing tailored support for students with varying needs. By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to help every student become an engaged, fluent reader.

This course format builds from module to module in a way that allows you to work through each of the essential ideas in smaller, more focused segments. You’ll find the same great resources and applicable assignments, distributed over 10 modules.