Working with striving older readers with fluency and decoding needs has its own challenges. This information may help!
Help older readers build fluency and boost comprehension with practical strategies for addressing accuracy, phrasing, expression, and reading rate. Discover common fluency errors, how to assess them, and age-appropriate tools designed for middle school students.
Phonological and phonemic awareness has been thought of as appropriate for only early readers, but research shows that even our older struggling readers benefit from these activities! Learn more here!
Support for Fluency Interventions in Secondary Reading Updated 2025 Secondary teachers often assume older students have mastered early reading skills, including decoding and fluency. As
Support for Syllable Instruction and Next Steps in Secondary Reading Interventions While primary teachers continue to struggle with the best way to teach young students
Explore three common decoding skill errors in middle school, including using syllables to solve long words, scanning left to right, and stressing the correct syllables.
How do you know what older struggling readers need? When I started my work with middle school struggling readers, I assumed I would be working
