Category Archives: Reading Fluency

Early Warning Signs of Dyslexia
Reading disorders in general, but dyslexia, specifically, usually become evident in early elementary grades with children. Some reading disorders […]
Repeated Reading: An Intervention That Works
Repeated Reading is an easy academic intervention that involves the student reading a short passage several times. Reading the […]

Importance of Rhyming for Reading Development
Reading disorders in general, but dyslexia, specifically, usually become evident in early elementary grades with children. Some reading disorders that […]

Use of DIBELS Pathways of Progress to Determine Reading Goals for English Language Learners
At the recent Mid-South Regional Conference for Psychology in the Schools, Jada White, a student from the School Psychology […]

Improving Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Pre-Teens and Teens
A lot of reading intervention research and practice focuses on early elementary age children who are still in the […]

Sight Words, Zipf’s Law, and Reading Fluency: Yes, They Go Together
High frequency words are the words that readers encounter the most often in printed text. Another term that you […]

Reading Fluency: The Next Step in Reading
We talked about the first two broad areas of reading development, phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle. Now, we’ll […]

Meet the Faculty/Staff: Dr. Chris Skinner
Christopher H. Skinner earned his PhD from Lehigh University and has been recognized as one of the most productive […]

Easy Reading Intervention: Listening Passage Preview
Listening Passage Preview is a simple academic intervention that targets reading fluency. This intervention involves an accomplished reader reading […]

Increase Elementary Reading Vocabulary: Error Word Drill
Error Word Drill (EWD) is a technique used to help developing readers learn vocabulary words. EWD has been effective […]