Improving Reading Fluency & Comprehension

Research-based series designed to improve students’ skill in areas of recognizing details and main ideas, locating information, using context clues, following directions, drawing conclusions, and writing sentences. Activities utilize direct-approach fluency formula: read and re-read decodable words in connected text.

Simple sentences and short, easy-to-read paragraphs are paired with compelling illustrations for a strong picture-text correspondence. Age-appropriate topics and a controlled vocabulary motivate students and help ensure success. Follow-up activities focus on specific reading skills such as finding the main idea, making inferences, reading for details, locating information, using context clues, and more. Activities challenge students to re-read each passage up to four times. 104 pages.