1. Word study and fluency -- 2. Basic concepts and terminology -- 3. Using authentic texts to learn new words and develop fluency -- 4. Teaching phonemic awareness -- 5. Onsets, rhymes and basic phonic patterns -- 6. Teaching advanced word patterns -- 7. Word walls -- 8. Making and writing words -- 9. Word banks and word sorts -- 10. Contextual word recognition -- 11. The language experience approach and word learning -- 12. Word games -- 13. Spelling and word learning -- 14. Beyond word study: reading fluency -- 15. Phonics and fluency -- 16. Instructional routines for word study and fluency -- 17. Assessing word recognition and reading fluency -- 18. Involving parents in word study and reading fluency instruction -- Appendix A. Common rimes (phonograms or word families) -- Appendix B. Fry Instant word list -- Appendix C. Prefixes -- Appendix D. Suffixes -- Appendix E. Greek and Latin word patterns -- Appendix F. Websites for word study.