Timothy Rasinski is the director of Kent State University's award-winning reading clinic and a professor of literacy instruction. About 200 articles have been published, and he has written, co-authored, or edited more than 50 books or curriculum packages on reading education. He is the author of Scholastic's best-selling reading fluency books, The Fluent Reader and The Fluent Reader in Action, which is currently in its second edition. His research interests include reading fluency and word study, elementary and middle school reading, and struggling readers. His reading research has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research, and has been referenced by the National Reading Panel. Tim wrote the fluency chapter for Volume IV of the Handbook of Reading Research as the first author.