The Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap

Hi everyone,

I want to tell you about a great interview. SAM BOMMARITO featured our new book, The Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap, with a wonderful interview with my writing colleagues on the book, TIM RASINSKI and LYNNE KULICH. Tim created the lesson twenty years ago and Lynne expanded it as a practicing (at the time) elementary school teacher. I opted out of the interview because these two experts have developed and practiced the lesson and speak with passion and pride of how well the approach works to teach reading fluency. I opted out of this event. I could have talked about the poetry I wrote for the book but that can come in a later interview. Thanks, Sam! Way to go, Tim and Lynne!

Here’s the link to the interview. It is well worth listening and watching. I hope you will also share it with others, classroom elementary school teachers in particular. Dr. Tim Rasinski and Dr. Lynne Kulich talk about their new book, The Fluency Development Lesson: Closing the Reading Gap: An Interview with Dr. Sam Bommarito

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Long live The Missouri Reader!

Hi everyone,

The fall edition of Missouri Reader is out. Here’s a link to it. https://viewer.joomag.com/fall-2023-missouri-reader-november-2023/0021475001664737499?short&

Among the excellent articles you’ll find are one by LAURA ROBB and one by MARY JO FRESCH. I’m in there, too, with a one-page introduction about when I was named the state’s poet laureate, and also in an interview of Laura, TIM RASINSKI, and me about our new book, PROMOTE READING GAINS WITH DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, as well as a video of a recent interview of us by SAM BOMMARITO. Here’s the link to that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-wL8RzgzQ . If this doesn’t work here, copy and past on Google and it will.

In this issue we bid fond farewell and thanks to Sam and GLENDA NUGENT, who have co-edited the journal for the last seven years., and welcome the new team of ELIZABETH WALLINGTON and JENNIFER BOTELLO. I’m happy to say that they are dedicating the upcoming March 2024 issue of The Reading Journal to poetry. An interview with GEORGIA HEARD and me will be in it and the issue, I’m told, will recognize my naming as Missouri Poet Laureate. I’m delighted!