Scholastic Professional: The Megabook of Fluency, 2nd Edition by Melissa Cheesman Smith (author) and Timothy V. Rasinski (author)

Fluency expert Tim Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction.

Fluency is the bridge between word recognition and comprehension. If students don’t develop it, they will struggle to read proficiently.

In this eagerly anticipated new edition, Rasinski and Smith discuss fluency’s connection to the science of reading. They provide dozens of ready-to-use, science-backed teaching strategies and student practice pages, updated to include more diverse authors. The book’s easy-to-navigate design now includes QR codes to demonstration videos and downloadable student pages.

• Ready-to-use, science-backed teaching strategies

• Student practice pages – updated to include more diverse authors

• Online demonstration videos

• Downloadable student pages

“I am a longstanding fan of The Megabook of Fluency. For schools looking to teach fluency rather than purely assess it, this is the must-have text.” Rachel Clarke, Independent Reading Consultant [about The Megabook of Fluency 1st edition]

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Timothy Rasinski is a professor of Literacy Education at Kent State University and director of its award-winning reading clinic. He has written more than 200 articles and has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best-selling books The Fluent Reader, The Megabook of Fluency, and the Daily Word Ladder series. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, and striving readers. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle grade classroom and reading intervention teacher.

Melissa Cheesman Smith is an experienced teacher at the elementary and college level with a Master’s of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. She is a published author of literacy professional books. She currently lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband and three children.