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7 Must-Have Resources to Improve Reading Fluency Right Now

Enrich and improve your library with these handy tips.

By Scholastic Editors
August 24, 2023

When it comes to helping your students develop reading fluency, an effective classroom library is one of your most important teaching tools. By stocking it with a diverse selection of titles and reading resources, your students will quickly learn how to read at a steady pace, with accuracy, and with increased reading comprehension to get the most out of the books they choose to read.

If you’re looking to refresh your classroom library and line its shelves with a few more tools to support your students on their reading adventures, we've got you covered.

From fairy tale performances to poetry reading, these seven teacher resources will not only improve reading fluency but will give your classroom library the refresh it needs to ensure reading success!

1. 12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays

These 12 classic fairy tales, transformed into humorous read-aloud plays, engage even the most reluctant readers and help your students develop the skills they need to become successful readers.

2. Week-by-Week Phonics & Word Study Activities for the Intermediate Grades

These short, weekly fluency building activities help your students decode multisyllabic words and boost their confidence in reading.

3. The Jumbo Book of Sight Word Practice Pages

With these sight word practice pages, your students will master every essential sight word through matching activities, fun word mazes, engaging puzzles, and more.

4. Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: High-Frequency Words

Giving your reluctant readers extra practice on high-frequency sight words will help them improve reading fluency and boost comprehension.

5. Sight Word Poems Flip Chart

These 25 short and playful poems focus on important sight words and feature predictable, rhyming text, and illustrations to engage students.

6. Sight Word Poetry Pages

With these ready-to-go sight word poetry pages, helping your young readers build automaticity and develop reading fluency has never been easier. From weather-related activities to “all about me” poetry prompts, students will enjoy crafting their own poems while receiving extra sight word review.

7. 25 Fun Phonics Plays for Beginning Readers

Still wondering how to improve reading fluency? These read-aloud plays are the perfect way to combine phonics and fluency practice in your classroom so your students build the skills they need for reading success.

These are just a few ways to retool your classroom library with new and innovative resources to help improve reading fluency. 

Shop more classroom library essentials for reading success below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.

Favorite Read-Alouds

Paperback Book

What Will You Be?

Grades Pre-K - 1
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With Abuela"s guidance and support, a young girl begins a journey of imagination where a world of future possibilities takes shape. 

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Ways to Welcome

Grades Pre-K - 1
$5.96$7.95
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A sweet, timely picture book about kindness and connection told in rhyme.

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This Is a School

Grades Pre-K - 1
$5.21$6.95
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A beautifully illustrated, moving celebration of the work, play, creativity, inclusion, and community at the heart of every great school.

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I Promise

Grades Pre-K - 2
$5.21$6.95
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“The NBA star offers a poem that encourages curiosity, integrity, compassion, courage, and self-forgiveness. Sincere and wholehearted.”-Kirkus

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Julián Is a Mermaid

Grades K - 2
$6.71$8.95
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A chance encounter on the subway invites a boy and his abuela to embrace his radiant individuality.

Reader Packs

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Sight Word Readers (Single-Copy Set)

Grades Pre-K - 1
$17.99$23.99
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Help your child soar in reading with this set of 25 little books that teach 50 of the most frequently used words in print! Kids will love these playful stories they can read all by themselves. You'll love the fact that each one builds reading skills and confidence. Includes a mini-workbook filled with easy how-to's, fun activities, and write-and-learn pages to give kids practice writing the words too.

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Give children the tools they need to soar as readers with this irresistible set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, short-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. That’s everything a child needs to grow into a confident, fluent, joyful reader.

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Set children on the road to literacy success with these playful, highly decodable stories! Inside this bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with must-know blends and digraphs plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. That’s everything a child needs to grow into a confident, fluent, joyful reader.

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Lay the foundation for literacy success with this super-engaging set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, long-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. That’s everything a child needs to grow into a confident, fluent, joyful reader.

Fun Workbooks

$5.24$6.99
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A relatively small number of words make up the great majority of text students will come across in the early elementary school years. If students can recognize these high frequency words at a glance, they will have greater access to all the knowledge that awaits them. The best way to teach sight words is through practice and repetition. This book will help increase familiarity through games and activities designed to boost students' recognition of the top 100 sight words!

$3.74$4.99
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Make learning beginning sounds fun with this colorful workbook! Alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness are the basis of early reading success-this product helps children begin building that foundation. Children practice identifying letters and their sounds. As children progress through the activities they"ll hone their ability to identify letter-sound correspondences and begin to develop an ability to identify words. Help little skill seekers build a strong foundation for early literacy.

Workbook

My First Phonics Jumbo Workbook

Grades Pre-K - K
$7.49$9.99
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Unlock the key to reading success with engaging jumbo activity book! With more than 300 delightful practice pages targeting key phonics skills, children have ample practice to master the skills they need to be successful learners. A mix of activities, puzzles, and games keeps learning fun. Stickers and a completion certificate are a reward for a job well done.

Activity Book

Read, Sort & Write: Word Families

Grades K - 2
$8.99$11.99
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Set the stage for reading success with these entertaining no-prep activity pages! Kids read, sort, and write words related to key word families. Along the way, they boost a network of essential literacy skills. These playful reproducible pages are no-prep and perfect for seatwork, centers, or send-home.

Put children on the path to reading success with these fun, engaging activity books! Each book targets 100 key sight words. Divided into manageable groups, words are introduced and reinforced through inviting activities, puzzles, and games. The activities are carefully designed to touch on reading, writing, and usage-taking children beyond mere recognition of sight words to genuine mastery.

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