4 Dec 2006
The Word Zone Fluency Curriculum: An Alternative Approach
Elfrieda H. Hiebert, University of California, Berkeley
Book Chapter
Published
Hiebert, E.H. (2007). The Word Zone Fluency Curriculum: An Alternative Approach. In M. Kuhn & P. Schwanenflugel (Eds.), Fluency in the Classroom (pp. 154-170). New York: Guilford.
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.
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