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4 Dec 2006

The Word Zone Fluency Curriculum: An Alternative Approach

Elfrieda H. Hiebert, University of California, Berkeley

Book Chapter
Published

Abstract

This chapter describes:

• the importance of attending to the words in texts that students read as part of repeated and guided reading fluency instruction;
• a fluency curriculum that consists of high-frequency words and words with consistent rimes (i.e., vowel and consonant patterns) that appear frequently in texts for young children;
• evidence that the fluency levels of beginning and struggling readers are supported when repeated and guided reading occurs with texts that follow the fluency curriculum; and
• sources for texts that give students experiences with the fluency curriculum.

• Hiebert (in press) Fluency Curriculum.pdf (118 KB)