Category: Fluency reading

Speed Work in the Reading Classroom

By savageward on October 19, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Yesterday, I went on a beautiful fall walk with a friend who happens to be a personal trainer. I told her I like to jog slowly. She scolded me and said I needed to push myself. It is not enough to just jog around the track, she said. […]

Using Graded Texts across the Curriculum

By savageward on September 19, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Along with our newest feature, downloadable, graded texts, we’ve been doing some research on extensive reading, and it turns out that in many programs, fluency reading is an ESOL underdog. It’s quite valuable, but we do not do enough of it. To start, much research supports the notion […]