- Reader's Theater is a strategy for developing fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part. They only need to reread it several times, in order to develop their fluency skills. The best Reader's Theater scripts include lots of dialogue.
- Timed repeated readings are an instructional practice for monitoring students' fluency development. Repeated readings, under timed conditions, of familiar instructional level text can increase students' reading speed which can improve comprehension.