What Really Matters in Fluency

Richard Allington is a past president of the International Reading Association and of the National Reading Conference. He has written more than 100 published papers and reports on reading difficulties, and is the author or coauthor of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, Classrooms That Work, and Schools That Work. Dick is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and federal programs director who has studied and written about fluency since his classic 1983 article in the Reading Teacher, "Fluency: The neglected goal."Allington, Richard L. is the author of 'What Really Matters in Fluency', published 2008 under ISBN 9780205570584 and ISBN 0205570585.