Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

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 ...

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Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text. The Teams ...

Modeling fluent reading, providing support and assistance while reading, and wide and repeated reading are the building blocks of fluency instruction. Making reading fluency a part of daily classroom ...

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 185-196 (12 pages) Students with disabilities often have difficulties acquiring basic reading skills. The purpose ...

Ed tech company Foundations in Learning, creator of the WordFlight literacy assessment and intervention for students in grades 3-8, has kicked off a new movement aimed at improving reading literacy.

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

January 27, 2016 - For children with severe astigmatism, wearing glasses to correct blurred vision can significantly improve accurate reading speed, reports a study in the February issue of Optometry ...

For the children with astigmatism, reading fluency was assessed before and after they got their glasses. The students with high astigmatism had significantly decreased oral reading fluency, compared ...