Do you have students in your class or homeschool room that lack expression, ignore punctuation, read so quickly (or slowly) that they're difficult to understand, or read laboriously* through a text? If so there are some quick and easy strategies that have proven to be effective that you can implement immediately. Self-Evaluations Readers need to know the criteria expected of them in order to master a concept. This is why rubrics are my BFF. It's one page that readers can refe

As soon as my kindergartner mastered phonics, we began her first grade year learning what it meant to be a fluent reader. I knew that direct fluency was necessary for all early readers, but it really became solidified in my mind when I heard my little reader read out loud. The more she read, the faster she read and the less coherent it became for her listeners. She knew the word and it seemed her little mouth couldn't keep up with her brain. It was time to slow the bus down a