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Oral Reading Fluency Research

Currently, teachers recognize the significance of fostering fluent reading skills for students, blending appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression in their reading. Although the link between reading fluency and comprehension is widely acknowledged, it's particularly...

Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency Instruction

This report summarizes the key perspectives of the National Reading Panel (NRP)[1] report published in 2000. Although this report appeared 25 years ago, the very comprehensive and authoritative nature of it still makes itrelevant today. We emphasize this report also...

Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Norms

The first study to be conducted establishing oral reading fluency (ORF) ‘norms’ occurred over 100 years ago. Specifically, in 1915, Starch asserted, “In every branch of instruction in the public schools we need a definite standard of attainment to be reached at the...

Finding and Fixing Writing Prompts

Given the plethora of writing prompts that are freely available on the internet, that is the best library for prompts . A simple search of the internet with the term “writing prompts” results in hundreds of sites offering a slew of them for students of all ages...