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.