My book  Outside Our Window: developing a primary nature program , includes curriculum ideas to support your nature program. I have always considered it my responsibility to ensure that students finish Kindergarten knowing the alphabet, letter sounds, some sight words as well as a whole slew of literacy keys to unlock reading in grade one. So when I began to re-read Dr. Richard Allington's book What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs  using a Kindergarten teacher's lens I was interested in the similarities between what happens in a K literacy program and other primary grades to help children learn to read fluently. Here is my interpretation as it relates to Kindergarten (in BC, Canada).  Understanding the importance of reading fluently : fluency includes not only speed but spontaneously self-correcting, intonation, phrasing and accuracy. Reading fluency also requires automaticity . Allington defines it as "recogn...