Reading Fluency in the High School Classroom

By the time a child with a learning disability evolves into an "adult" high school student, he or she has mostly given up on becoming a fluent reader. How can a teacher of students at this tender stage of life, when their most important task is finding the perfect pimple cream that works or asking that cute guy or girl in class to go out to a movie on Saturday night, ever tackle the problem of stutter reading, dyslexia, voice volume and expression when they're reading aloud?

Oral reading is more than just reading words. The students don't even understand the magnitude of oral reading on their whole persona. If a student sounds good, he or she feels good. It can build self-concept. It can help a student feel confidence in not only reading aloud, but also in living aloud.

But how can a teacher or parent work on this weakness, especially if the child isn't able to read on grade level?

From my experience teaching a Reading Fluency class as a high school special education teacher of freshmen through seniors with learning disabilities, I've found a method that helps, and it's not that difficult or time consuming to institute.