The Family Fluency Program

• Published in: The Reading teacher Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 322 - 333
• Main Authors: Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Kuhn, Melanie R., Schwanenflugel, Paula J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2006; International Reading Association
• Subjects: Basal Reading; Child Health; childhood; Children; Control Groups; Educational evaluation; Educational Research; Elementary school students; evidence; experiment; Families & family life; family; Family Programs; Fluency; Gray Oral Reading Test; home school; instructional; Language fluency; Literacy; Literacy programs; methodology; Oral reading; Parent participation; parental; Parents; Preschool Children; Primary Education; Reading; Reading Comprehension; Reading Fluency; Reading Instruction; Reading Programs; Reading teachers; School Activities; School age children; socioeconomic; strategies; Surveys; Teachers; Teaching Methods; United States > US; New Jersey
• ISSN: 0034-0561; 1936-2714
• DOI: 10.1598/RT.60.4.2

As part of a larger study on developing children's reading fluency in the classroom, a program was introduced to help parents understand the importance of fluency and participate in fluency‐related activities with children at home. The Family Fluency Program included activities similar to those that the children were doing in school, with some support for the initial reading of selections and then repeated reading of stories using echo reading, choral reading, and partner reading. The family program showed promise for enhancing the school program when parents implemented the activities at home.