Fluency in Making connections
Lessons for making connections include the reading if texs for two key purposes.
The first purpose requires that student retead to indentify underline the key ideas for the target skill.
The second recommends that student reread a text with the specific goal of increasing speed and reading with appropriate phrasing and expression.
The teacher's edition contains ideas for using teacher modeling and peer-mediated activities to help children build both fluency and automatic word recgnition.