I recently wrote a piece about reading fluency instruction for our special report on early literacy. Sometimes I’m asked how I come up with ideas for articles. And while the majority are based on news ...

For typically developing readers, fluency—or the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression—is often simply a product of practice. Having mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a ...

But if the focus is on speed, she said, "a child thinks it's like a race to read words and they don't concentrate on the meaning." Carol Newton, Millard's director of elementary education, said ...