Understanding the Importance of Fluency and Incorporating it Into Your Busy School Day with Aylin Claahsen

I can not wait for you to listen to this episode with my special guest and friend, Aylin Claahsen. Aylin Claahsen is a certified reading specialist, literacy consultant, and curriculum designer who loves sharing literacy tips for teaching readers. Specializing in Kindergarten-5th Grade, she can be found sharing literacy tips on her blog, social media, or in her newsletter. Aylin has a huge passion for writing engaging passages and creating engaging literacy resources. She has seen the impact it has on readers of all ability levels and she truly loves helping readers, near and far. Knowing that is one way that she gets to connect with students and teachers all around the world makes her heart so happy.

Aylin also truly believes that building confidence in readers is one of the most important things teachers can do. If she is not working on engaging literacy resources or helping a kiddo build their skills as a reader, you can find her spending her days with her favorite people- her daughter, her son, and her husband. One other thing you’ll also likely notice about Aylin- she loves using way too many exclamation points and saying YAY or LOL in every other sentence! She simply cannot wait to keep chatting all things literacy with you! 

If you’re an elementary teacher you may consider reading fluency as the child’s ability to read a story from start to finish. During this discussion with Aylin you’ll learn that fluency is really much more than that! It truly connects to so many different skills that will improve reading comprehension. By using these strategies, you can focus on fluency without recreating the wheel or disrupting what you’re already doing.

In this episode we discuss:

• What reading fluency really means
• Reasons teachers should focus on fluency
• How fluency corresponds to reading comprehension
• Ways to incorporate fluency strategies into the day
• The benefits of using centers during your reading block

Connect with Aylin:

• Read her blog.
• Shop her TpT store.
• Follow her on Instagram.
• Follow her on Facebook.
• Check out her membership site.
• Grab her FREE fluency guide.

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About The Literacy Dive Podcast:

Do you find yourself seeking new ideas when it comes to literacy instruction in elementary classrooms? The Literacy Dive Podcast was created to offer actionable steps and to share information for teachers, like you, who are always looking to improve their craft! ELA is our jam and we are excited to dive into all things reading and writing with you!

Your host, Megan Polk, is the creator and owner behind The Literacy Dive and loves to support students and their teachers with curriculum, literacy instruction, best practices, and engaging literacy activities.

Dive in with us every Monday for a new episode from Megan! She, and her guests, will chat about various literacy topics and will bring you tips and tricks that can easily be implemented in your classrooms. You can tune in wherever you get your podcasts! Listen to The Literacy Dive Podcast on platforms like Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and more! If you find value from listening to this podcast, please rate this show, leave a review, and follow!

You can tune in wherever you get your podcasts! Listen to The Literacy Dive Podcast on platforms like Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and more! If you find value from listening to this podcast, please rate this show, leave a review, and follow!