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Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. He has written more than 200 articles and has authored, coauthored, or edited more than 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. His best-selling book on reading fluency, The Fluent Reader, is now in its second edition. His scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study and readers who struggle. His research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Rasinski is the first author of the fluency chapter for the Handbook of Reading Research.
He has served on the board of directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Rasinski is past president of the College Reading Association and was inducted into the International Reading Hall of Fame in 2010. Prior to coming to Kent State, Rasinski taught literacy education at the University of Georgia. He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and Title I teacher in Nebraska.
Forty ready-to-use lessons are complete with teasers, strategies, and reproducibles to help students in grades K–2 build comprehension, fluency, word work skills, and vocabulary.
(A joint publication of ASCD and International Literacy Association, 2019)
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40 ready-to-use lessons are complete with teasers, strategies, and reproducibles to help students in grades 3–5 build comprehension, fluency, word work skills, and vocabulary.
(A joint publication of ASCD and International Literacy Association, 2018)
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