Phonics & 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.