Teaching Fluency Beyond the Primary Grades

Tougher vocabulary. Richly detailed descriptions. Sophisticated syntax. As texts become more challenging in the upper elementary grades, the fluency skills readers need become increasingly critical. Midge Madden and Jane Sullivan deliver classroom-tested lessons that help grades 4–6 readers achieve accurate, well-paced, expressive oral reading with all kinds of texts. Modeling their fluency instruction in action, they show how to motivate, teach, and assess readers at different levels of proficiency.