1. Just as Proffessor Alington suggests, teachers need to make sure there are appropriate books in their classroom for all level readers. The book needs to be just right for that specific child, we don't want it to be too easy or too hard. The classroom needs to have a rich supply of reading material.
2. Have a large selection of books in your classroom, set up by different genres. The more books the children are exposed to the better readers they will become after practicing their fluency in reading. I was amazed to see the huge selection of books that some of the classrooms had. The more exposed our students are to new and different types of books, the more fluent they will become.
3. Children need to learn how to self regulate their own reading without intervention after every word. Respond to them just like you respond to a good reader. Instead of correcting them after every word, wait until they finish the sentence so that they will realize on their own that what they read didn't make sense and needs correction. It is also very effective when the teacher reads out loud to the class with expressive reading. Model fluent reading to them. The goal of reading may be comprehension, but another goal that we as teachers want our students to receive is goosebumps, giggles, happiness, to actually feel the emotions of the book as they read it.
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