Building Fluency: Lessons and Strateies for Reading Success

Scholastic’s Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success

By: Wiley Blevins

Includes mini-lessons, activities, and word lists to help improve reading fluency. Explains fluency and its relationship to reading comprehension. Provides instruction for teachers on how to help students develop and assess fluency. Fluency mini-lessons on phrase-cued text practice, echo reading, use of audio books, intonation, phrasing, oral reading, repeated reading, speed drills, and fluency check-ups.  

Blevins, Wiley. (2002). Building fluency. Teaching Resources.

Comprehension Mini-Lessons: Main Idea and Summarizing

Scholastic's Comprehension Mini-Lessons: Main Idea and Summarizing
Written by: LeAnn Nickelsen with Sarah Glasscock


Includes mini-lessons, activities, do now activities, graphic organizers, assessment ideas and test-prep activities.


Main idea lessons focusing on identifying the main idea (big picture), identifying supporting details, determining imortance, main idea equation, writing with a main idea, and test taking strategies. The final project for main idea is to create an informational booklet about a student-selected topic.


Mini-lessons on summarizing include hand summaries (5WH), using titles to create summaries, BME summaries, PROVE strategy for summary writing, and test taking strategies. The final project involves using a variety of graphic organizers to write a summary of a book.


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Nickelsen, Leann, and Sarah Glasscock. Comprehension Mini-lessons. New York: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2004.