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Incorporating Movement With Fluency Instruction: A Motivation for Struggling Readers

Jodi L. Peebles

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.

Abstract from Peebles, J.L. (2007, March). Incorporating Movement With Fluency Instruction: A Motivation for Struggling Readers. The Reading Teacher, 60(6), 578–581. doi: 10.1598/RT.60.6.9