Offers a plethora of easy-to-implement teaching appropriate for children in classrooms from kindergarten through fifth grade-The wide range of activities makes this book a useful resource for preservice teachers who do not know the grade they will teach and inservice teachers in graduate courses or in the classroom, as well as for coaches (or mentors) in the elementary school.
* Boxed features describing best practices for teaching (1) the major components of reading, (2) English language learners and (3) struggling readers-Best practices give the reader guidance for improving classroom practices specifically tailored to teaching each component, English learners and struggling readers.
* Informal assessments in each chapter-Suggestions for informal assessments provide classroom-appropriate methods that can be used for formative and summative evaluations of student learning.
* Activities give the reader advice on grouping, provide a list of material, and include step-by-step directions-Clear, reader friendly explanations give the reader all the information needed to implement activities, thereby making it easier for the reader to use activities in the classroom.

1. Teaching Word Recognition and Fluency in Your Classroom.
2. Developing Fluency with Hands-on Activities for Teaching Phonological Awareness.
3. Developing Fluency with Hands-on Activities for Teaching Letter Names and Single Letter Sounds.
4. Developing Fluency with Hands-on Activities for Teaching Word Family Words and Pronounceable Letter Patterns.
5. Developing Fluency with Hands-on Activities for Teaching Structural Analysis.
6. Developing Fluency with Hands-on Activities for Word Meaning and Rapid Word Recognition.
7. Developing Oral and Silent Reading Fluency.
8. Developing Word Recognition and Fluency in Children who Speak a Language other than English at Home.
Appendix I: Reproducible Patterns.
Appendix II: Compound Words.
Appendix III: Root Words.
Appendix IV: Prefixes and Useful Examples.
Appendix V: Suffixes and Examples.
Glossary.