Are you on the reviewer list yet?

Hi everyone,

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When I posted this notice a few days ago — Our publisher will provide free copies for qualified reviewers. If you are or have been an educator for grades 1-5 (teacher, reading instructor, librarian, administrator), or know someone who is, and would like to be considered for the list of reviewers, please let me know and I’ll send the list to our editor next week. My email address is davidlharrson1@att.net. — I heard from several of you. This morning I forwarded the list to our editor with a promise to keep the opportunity open for a few more days. So, if you would like to be added to the list, please let me know in the next few days. By the way, volunteers have come from beyond the United States.

To refresh your memory about the book/authors/purpose, here’s the link. https://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/looking-for-reviewers/

Me reading about The Fluency Development Lesson

Hi everyone,

I’ve been meaning to post this link for some time. It’s to a video I recorded to help promote the recently released book, co-written with LYNNE KULICH and TIM RASINSKI, titled The Fluency Development Lesson, Closing the Reading Gap. Here’s the link, https://youtu.be/Mgn1lBu-Oi0 and here’s the book,

The book was released in June 2024 by Benchmark Education. The genesis of the project was The Fluency Lesson, a one-page document that Tim published and began using many years ago. Teachers everywhere use his formula in their classrooms and love it. Meanwhile, Lynne developed the original lesson into a five-day program that she used when she was teaching elementary students. Now we have expanded the whole concept in this 456-page book. It was my privilege to write poems for grades 1-5, ten per grade level. Lynne and Tim used my work to develop lessons, word ladders, and knowledgeable, practical text. Believe it or not, the original manuscript ran over 600 pages so what was published doesn’t include all the material we prepared. Of my fifty poems, twenty-eight of them appear in the final version. What we will eventually do with all the material that was left out is unclear, but not forgotten.

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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