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Fluency Instruction In The Second-Grade Classroom, Kati L. Stephens

Graduate Research Papers

This project is a classroom project for implementation in a self-contained second-grade classroom. It is a specific fluency curriculum, focusing on research-based teaching strategies and the use of authentic children's literature to promote second-grade students' reading fluency.

Reflections About My Second Year Of Teaching Reading, Molly Melloy Recker

Graduate Research Papers

On the second day of school, I realized that four students had entered my first grade classroom – reading. As that school day concluded, at the beginning of my second year of teaching, I remember sitting down at my desk, and thinking to myself, "Now what?" These were not the students I was expecting.

In this paper I explain how I adapted my reading beliefs and teaching practices to meet the challenge the four students posed to me. I describe each student, and their reading behaviors. Next, I discuss perspectives about early literacy, in order to examine my beliefs in …