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This work talks about development of fluency, factors affecting fluency, definition, history, measurement and assessment, struggling readers, and English-language learners. Reading fluency has become a hot topic. When Cassidy and Cassidy (2003/2004) asked experts "What's Hot and What's Not" in "Reading Today", the experts agreed that fluency was a hot topic and deserved to be. Similarly, the highly influential "Report of the National Reading Panel" (2000) devoted an entire chapter to fluency. Along with fluency's newfound importance, however, it is going through a period of growing pains. There are two controversial aspects of fluency. The first relates to its definition and the second to its measurement. Definitions are not trivial ivory tower concerns that are of no importance because how we define a construct such as fluency determines and influences to a large degree how we will measure it.

Useful for undergraduate students learning to be classroom teachers as well as for classroom teachers focusing on reading instruction in their graduate programs. American Psychological Association

Finally, a book that provides just what the fluency doctor ordered a balanced treatment of the research on fluency by leading educators who have studied the issue carefully. P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley

The editors of What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction present the most recent research on fluency and show how you can put it into practice. An indispensable resource for classroom teachers and teacher educators alike, the reader-friendly text offers a range of expert perspectives on the key aspects of fluency:

- History and definitions

- Instruction and development

- Measurement and assessment

- Issues for struggling readers, English-language learners, and students with dyslexia

- And much more

Discussion questions encourage further thinking and reflection for individual and group study.