NM PED 2026 Literacy and Humanities Summer Conference

Fluency is more than a technical skill, it is a pathway to empowerment, resilience, and hope for our older striving readers. In this session, we explore fluency’s role in adolescent literacy development and its critical impact on overall student learning.

Through evidence-based practices and collaborative planning, educators will reimagine fluency instruction as a means of fostering engagement, success, and lifelong literacy. Participants will examine how to move beyond simple speed-drills toward meaningful, prosodic reading that supports deep comprehension. You will leave with practical tools to integrate fluency support into the secondary classroom, ensuring that older readers gain the confidence and automaticity needed to tackle complex, grade-level texts.