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Daily Word Ladders for Fluency

Children climb to new heights in reading and writing with these engaging word-building games!

Working from the starting word at the bottom of the ladder, children read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange the letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they’re boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary , and becoming better, more fluent readers.

• Word building games for ages 6-11 to build fluency, vocabulary and spelling skills
• Over 80 photocopiable activities
• Perfect for use in the classroom or at home

The Megabook of Fluency

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teamed up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency- and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition- the potential is high for improving students’ overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

The Fluent Reader

Tim Rasinski’s groundbreaking book has been updated to include coverage of the latest research on fluency, teaching strategies based on that research, new classroom vignettes, and suggestions for using a variety of texts to teach fluency such as poetry, speeches, and monologues and dialogues. You’ll also find background information, assessment tools, step-by-step lessons, and teaching tips-plus video clips showing the strategies in action.