Latest Fluency Stories

By Thomas, Cathy Newman Wexler, Jade Using up-to-date, evidenced-based strategies in the classroom, middle and high school teachers can promote literacy among adolescents. As Mrs. Padilla works with a small group of students, she surveys her 9th grade English class. Across the room, she catches the eye of Ms. Cameron, her literacy coach, and they share a smile. Mrs. Padilla reflects on how profoundly her understanding and beliefs about her profession as an English teacher have changed since...

ORLANDO, Fla., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- This year, Rosemont Elementary's sixty struggling readers in the third, fourth and fifth grades have dramatically increased their reading fluency level by using the Soliloquy Reading Assistant, an interactive, speech-enabled educational software program. Diligent use of the program has lead to considerable improvements in their reading skills and comprehension abilities. The students began using the program in October 2006 after they took the fall...

HAINES CITY, Fla., March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- This year, students at Alta Vista Elementary School are increasing their reading fluency skills at almost double the rate of national norms while using the Soliloquy Reading Assistant, an interactive speech-enabled educational software program. The school's 300 third and fourth graders are benefiting from the program's ability to provide each student with one-on-one guided oral reading instruction, the best practice shown in research to reliably...

By Vadasy, Patricia F; Sanders, Elizabeth A; Peyton, Julia A ABSTRACT Two studies-one quasi-experimental and one randomized experiment- were designed to evaluate the effectiveness of supplemental instruction in structural analysis and oral reading practice for second- and third-grade students with below-average word reading skills. Individual instruction was provided by trained paraeducators in single- and multiletter phoneme-grapheme correspondences; structural analysis of inflected,...