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Reading Fluency?

by carrie

Jul 25, 2010

Does anyone do reading fluency in middle school? We have a separate language arts class and a reading class. I think my principal gave me a class period per day and labeled it reading fluency. I believe I will be pulling kids from different classrooms at this time. Need ideas?

If this was your class, what would you do?

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Cyndy Especially with middle schoolers, I would definitely incorporate technology some how. You can use a program like Fluency Timer to have students time and record themselves reading into the computer to try to improve their fluency. It really helps for them to be able to play back their own reading and hear their own mistakes. We use Fluency Timer for...See More

Jan 22, 2011

Jeff We used Reading Plus this year as a pilot and it really improved fluency. It is a computer based silent reading fluency program.

Jun 20, 2012

Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills

by Jo

Aug 4, 2010

I've pondered this for a long while and wanted to know how others feel regarding the words we use with our students.

Often when we talk about developing reading skills we talk about what "good readers" do. The terms good and bad are used so often in school and society where bad is very negative. Bad behavior is typically followed by punish...See More

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Chris Roland I completely agree with both of you on these posts. My own example to students, to show them how reading fluency and practice are linked, would be:

Read my students 30 seconds in English and ask them how easily i seemed to read it on a scale of 1-10.

Do the same with 30 seconds of Spanish, where my pron is dodgy and I stumble over...See More

Oct 28, 2010

Robben Wainer On 8/04/10, Jo wrote: > I've pondered this for a long while and wanted to know how > others feel regarding the words we use with our students. > > Often when we talk about developing reading skills we talk > about what "good readers" do. The terms good and bad are > used so often in school and society where bad is very > negati...See MoreOn 8/04/10, Jo wrote: > I've pondered this for a long while and wanted to know how > others feel regarding the words we use with our students. > > Often when we talk about developing reading skills we talk > about what "good readers" do. The terms good and bad are > used so often in school and society where bad is very > negative. Bad behavior is typically followed by punishment > of some sort or some uncomfortable natural consequence. > > Trying to break through to the student who continue to > struggle with reading our words have so much to do with > breaking through the built up emotions and negative > feelings that struggling to master the skill of reading has > created. > > While using this terminology is supposed to help the > student recognize the appropriate skills that need to be > utilized to be able to comprehend what is read, I've heard > it used so often in so many ways that it concerns me. > > Good readers do not summarize after every paragraph. Good > readers actually can read multiple paragraphs and > understand the content. I'm not saying that summarizing in > order to access the content at a later time is not a good > study strategy or learning strategy, nor am I saying that > this is not an excellent strategy for some students to use > who are poor readers. Often I hear students being told > that this is a behavior of a good reader when in fact it is > not. > > This connotations with good/bad are trigger words for > students who have struggled with skills or behavior. They > tend to instantly seize up at the sound of them. > > I plan to replace the good/bad vocabulary in my classes > with alternative words that address the skills needed to > read and comprehend. > > What words would you use instead of "good reader"? My > first choice would be "skilled readers". I will continue > to discuss good strategies to use to aid in the skills of > reading and compreheding, but I plan to eliminate the > good/bad to the task at hand.

Teaching Reading comprehension we begin with a construct we describe as formiddable; one that contributes, or adds to, or helps to gain or achieve insight. In this way when we discuss intuition we are not discussing a state of anxiety or dreams, but rather the purpose there in achieving the goals we set, and how we can accomplish them by acquiring the skills that are needed through Literacy Development

Feb 14, 2011

Qualification Question

by anon

Aug 5, 2010

What are the qualifications that one has to have to teach in a Title one classroom? Does it variety from state to state?

Does one HAVE to have their reading endorsement?

Reading Teacher/Specialist

by ABC

Aug 16, 2010

In MO, to be eligible to be a Reading Specialist, an individual must have along with the BS/BA, a Masters in Reading Education. I would only think that this would be the minimum in other states as well. However, if unable to find such a person, a district may engage a regular classroom teacher at the least and declare a hardship for the district an...See More

please send me a copy too

by Tresia

Aug 17, 2010

Thanks for sending it to me also.

by Marie

Aug 22, 2010

I work with small groups in a reading improvement program for 4th and 5th grade students. This is a pull-out program. I would like to do a word wall, but am not certain how to go about this. The classroom teachers already have their own word walls, with each teacher using different words because there is little consistency in our building with this...See More

Mae in Texas I put root words, word patterns, and commonly misspelled words on my word wall as we learn them during our word study time. Mae

Aug 27, 2010

Comprehension Assessment

by Marie

Aug 22, 2010

Our school is using Dibels for reading fluency, however we have no quick assessment for comprehension. The retelling in Dibels is not producing worthwhile information regarding comprehension. We are having difficulty because we have no real data on students in this area for our RtI meetings. We just began guided reading a couple of years ago and te...See More

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Diana Maxwell On 8/22/10, Marie wrote: > Our school is using Dibels for reading fluency, however we > have no quick assessment for comprehension. The retelling in > Dibels is not producing worthwhile information regarding > comprehension.

I use the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI-4) which is relatively quick to administer and it's object...See More

Aug 27, 2010

Mark Pennington Here's my take on reading comprehension assessments. Unlike PA, phonics, encoding, fluency, word recognition, etc. assessments, a reading comprehension test provides no precise and "teachable" data. If you can't teach to it, why give it?

Aug 27, 2010

word walls - response to Marie's posting

by Cathy

Aug 22, 2010

I don't know if anyone else is having trouble posting a simple response!

Marie - your question puts me in mind of the current "Choice Literacy" newsletter article: [link removed].

I don't have any answers for you. What is your focus with the students? I could see working on affixes, which could support the classroom teacher's word...See More

new 2 Just an insight: There may be no continuity among classes in your building for this reason. In our district, word walls are for the words each class needs to learn. High frequency and some phonetically regular words are used during the week and put on the Word Wall as anchors for specific phonetic sounds or (HF) words that must be spelled correctly...See More

Sep 5, 2010

Bump My word wall is determined by the children. After journal writing period, we discuss words that they think that everyone would use on the word wall....words that they have trouble spelling, because, grandmother, etc. They have ownership of it, and they use it more often because of this.

On 9/05/10, new 2 wrote: > Just an insight: > ...See More

Oct 22, 2010

BAS or QRI for Middle school students

by Sally

Aug 30, 2010

I'd like to hear thoughts on the purchase of BAS or the QRI for 6-8 middle school students. I know they both give you diagnostic information... just wondering if one is better than other for ms students.

Cathy The Benchmark Assessment System has more of a gradient as opposed to the end-of-year benchmark. I prefer it.

On 8/30/10, Sally wrote: > I'd like to hear thoughts on the purchase of BAS or the QRI > for 6-8 middle school students. I know they both give you > diagnostic information... just wondering if one is better > than other...See More

Oct 5, 2010

by Sheila

Sep 5, 2010

Hi - I am teaching a life skills classroom, 7/8th. Is there a web site I can access running record material so I can assess where the kids are at?

Thanks, Sheila

Amethyst On 9/05/10, Sheila wrote: > Hi - I am teaching a life skills classroom, 7/8th. Is > there a web site I can access running record material so I > can assess where the kids are at? > > Thanks, Sheila

Teachervision has a blank form you can use. If you click the link Running Record you will see additional information about the d...See More

Sep 7, 2010

PedagoNet Have you tried this on

Sep 8, 2010

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