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Carlson, Jennifer

Jordan,Nancy

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press España, S.A.

Rereading Fluency is an important and timely book…. The authors do not just criticize current policies and practices but offer alternatives for improving the quality of reading assessment and instruction. - Richard L. Allington Has your school spent tens of thousands or more dollars on fluency-based reading assessment programs? If so, you might be getting less for your investment than you think. Did you know? 
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<li>There is little consensus on what exactly fluency is. </li> <li>The NRP's report - the basis for Reading First - failed to support its assertion that “it is generally acknowledged that fluency is a critical component of skilled reading.” </li> <li>The relationship between fluency and comprehension may be vastly overstated by the conventional wisdom? </li> </ul> Challenging commonly held notions of the effectiveness and importance of fluency, Rereading Fluency provides the vital information any teacher or administrator needs to determine the most effective way to help students read well. Combining a careful review of prior research with findings from their own thorough analysis of more than 120 second grade readers, Bess Altwerger, Nancy Jordan, and Nancy Rankie Shelton detail why, as a measure of reading success, fluency can fall flat. Using a multischool, multiprogram study, they compare the effects of commercial, phonics-based programs and noncommercial literature-based programs on students' fluency and overall proficiency. The results will surprise you: <ul>
<li>Faster, more accurate readers aren't always better comprehenders. </li> <li>Decoding rates are highly variable among readers with similar comprehension levels. </li> <li>Commercial, phonics-based programs do not result in better decoding, faster and more accurate reading, or better comprehension. </li> <li>Performance on fluency assessments says little if anything about students' ability to read and understand literature. </li> </ul> Altwerger, Jordan, and Shelton don't just dismantle the arguments for considering fluency a key component of reading, they come through with specific critiques of DIBELS and offer better ways to assess reading (effective and efficient, not just fluent) that can improve instruction, assessment, and the success of young readers. Whether your school is about to mandate a commercial reading program or a standardized fluency assessment, or it is trying to get out from under one, make Rereading Fluency,and make your powerful, research-based ally in the battle for improved assessment and instruction.

Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice, and Policy

Altwerger, Bess

Allington, Richard L.

Shelton, Nancy

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

The story of young Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, who arrived in Alaska during the Great Depression, the sole physician to a remote colony of impoverished farm families.

Frontier Physician: The Life and Legacy of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Epicenter Pr

Unlock your academic potential with this six-level, academic-light English course created to build the skills and language students need for their studies (CEFR Pre-A1 to C1). It develops students' ability to think critically in an academic context right from the start of their language learning. Every level has 100% new inspiring video on a range of academic topics.

Unlock Level 1 Listening, Speaking and Critical Thinking Student's Book with Digital Pack

Peterson,Susan

White, N.M.

Cambridge University Press

Unlock Level 3 Listening, Speaking and Critical Thinking Student's Book with Digital Pack

Ostrowska, Sabina

Sowton,Chris

Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 2 (B1) Listening and Speaking Student's Book prepares students for college classes by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. Special sections teach how to be a successful college student, and the accompanying video program sets the stage for each unit's topic. Inside the book is a single-use code for the Digital Pack. This provides automatically graded extra practice and works on computers or mobile devices.

Prism Level 2 Listening and Speaking Student's Book with Digital Pack

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cambridge University Press and Assessment

Get your students thinking critically. A six-level skills-based English course. Unlock Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking is a six-level, research-informed, academic-light English course created to build the skills and language students need for their studies. It develops students' ability to think critically in an academic context right from the start of their language learning. Every level has 100% new, inspiring video on a range of academic topics. Critical Thinking sections develop the lower- and higher-order thinking skills required for the productive speaking task, with measureable progress. Every unit is enhanced with fully integrated, bespoke Classroom App material to extend the skills and language students are learning in the book.

Unlock Level 1 Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking Student’s Book, Mob App and Online Workbook w/ Downloadable Audio and Video

Unlock Level 3 Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking Student’s Book, Mob App and Online Workbook w/ Downloadable Audio and Video

Paired skills course focusing on critical thinking, academic skills, and language students need most. Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 2 (B1) Listening and Speaking Student's Book prepares students for college classes by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. Special sections teach how to be a successful college student, and the accompanying video program sets the stage for each unit's topic. Inside the book is a single-use code for the online workbook. This provides automatically graded extra practice and works on PCs and Macs.

Prism Level 2 Student's Book with Online Workbook Listening and Speaking

Paired skills course focusing on critical thinking, academic skills, and language students need most. Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 2 (B1) Listening and Speaking Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions, video scripts, the student's book answer key, and unit quizzes with answer keys.

Prism Level 2 Teacher's Manual Listening and Speaking

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