Building Fluency contains everything teachers need to improve students' reading fluency, one of five essential reading components identified in Reading First. Transparencies and assessment tools are included. The selections are engaging and humorous. Selections that first-graders will want to read again and again! Building Fluency, Grade 1 includes the following: 26 poems 18 songs, chants, and rhymes 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction selections 4 readers' theater selections