Ep. 210: How Can You Improve Fluency for Older Students? with Janee' Butler

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Fluency is complex, especially for older students.

In this episode, Janee' Butler shares:

• how fluency instruction looks from early grades to secondary
• about challenges students and teachers face,
• practical strategies for improving fluency,
• a reminder not to forget about student motivation, especially for older students struggling with reading fluently.

The Big Takeway: Reading fluency is essential for older students to be able to comprehend what they read. Teachers need the knowledge of how to help each student!

Want to Learn More?

• Janee's presentation at PaTTAN Symposium 2024: Achieving Adolescent Literacy Proficiency: The Importance of Fluency
• Teaching Oral Reading Fluency to Older Students by Tim Shanahan
• Phonics and Spelling through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping by Catherine Grace
• Really Great Reading assessments (free)
• DIBELS assessments- 8th Edition (free)
• Plain Talk About Literacy & Learning Conference 2025
• email Janee': [e-mail]

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Capitoli

1. Ep. 210: How Can You Improve Fluency for Older Students? with Janee' Butler (00:00:00)

2. Navigating Challenges in Teaching Fluency (00:00:01)

3. Challenges of Secondary Fluency Instruction (00:09:09)

4. Challenges in High School Literacy (00:16:20)

5. Teaching Strategies for Language Comprehension (00:23:26)

6. Navigating High School Literacy Challenges (00:28:47)

7. Syllable Instruction and Literacy Challenges (00:39:13)