For typically developing readers, fluency—or the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression—is often simply a product of practice. Having mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a ...

I recently wrote a piece about reading fluency instruction for our special report on early literacy. Sometimes I’m asked how I come up with ideas for articles. And while the majority are based on news ...

But if the focus is on speed, she said, "a child thinks it's like a race to read words and they don't concentrate on the meaning." Carol Newton, Millard's director of elementary education, said ...