Phonics and Fluency Practice with Poetry : Lessons That Tap the Power of Rhyming Verse to Improve Students' Word Recognition, Automaticity, and Prosody-and Help Them Become Successful Readers

Fluency expert Tim Rasinski and his colleagues share a teacher-friendly guide to designing powerful--and fun--fluency practice. Innovative ideas for performing poetry motivate students to read and reread poems, building their word recognition, fluency, and comprehension. Word-study and vocabulary-building activities further enrich poetry explorations, and simple daily, three-day, and five-day teaching routines make it easy to weave poetry reading into your regular schedule. Includes dozens of model poems help you get started right away! For use with Grades K-5.