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Incorporating Movement With Fluency Instruction: A Motivation for Struggling Readers
Author(s) -
Peebles Jodi L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.60.6.9
Subject(s) - fluency , psychology , kinesthetic learning , reading (process) , movement (music) , rhythm , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , linguistics , philosophy , aesthetics
This article discusses two activities—Readers Theatre and Rhythm Walks—that encourage students to “get moving” with fluency instruction. Movement can be a motivating factor for struggling students, as well as a kinesthetic tool for conceptualizing the rhythm and flow of fluent reading while triggering brain function for optimal learning. Also included is a discussion of the importance of motivating struggling students in order to engage them long enough to elicit changes in reading behavior and to learn to generalize skills to new experiences.