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How Teachers and Families Can Help Students Build Reading Fluency Over the Summer
2019
By: Cindy Jiban

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In this Education Post article, Cindy Jiban discusses research showing that kids in the primary grades typically return from summer break with slower and less accurate oral reading. But this doesn’t have to be the case: we can set kids up for growth in fluency instead.
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