Joel Erion
Carol S. Ronka

Reading fluency has been identified as one of the necessary components for becoming a strong reader. Instructional techniques designed to improve reading fluency are generally easy to implement. Many parents are eager to assist in the growth of their children’s academic skills. This article describes a procedure for improving oral reading fluency that is easy for parents to learn and to carry out. Training parents is relatively simple and can be done by the classroom teacher or other school personnel. Parents in turn are asked to work with their children for 15 minutes a day. Reading material at the child’s instructional level is used and recording procedures incorporate goal setting and progress monitoring. A training workshop utilizing modeling and supervised practice was held for 15 families with at-risk children. Case studies describing the successes of two particular children are included.

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