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I plan to study fluency and reading comprehension strategies because I want to find out how to improve the reading skills of my resource students to show growth so that I may better understand how to implement new strategies during my reading instruction.

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Within this article authors Peter Dewitz and Jennifer Jones explain the many components and benefits of using a basal reader in a classroom.  Both authors explain how basal readers are used most effectively as well as different ways to accomodate and modify assignments based on your classroom needs.  Setting goals and building prior knowledge before, during, and after reading are also discussed within the article to help enhance guided reading instruction.

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Guided Reading: The Romance and the Reality

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Guided Reading: The Romance and the Reality

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This article, by Fountas and Pinnell, explains the different challenges and tribulations some teachers have experienced while teaching guided reading.  Both authors also explain the process of reading, true comprehension, and also building your student's reading abilities to progress throughout the year. Lastly, the authors share different key components of reading such as oral reading through fluency and assessment to help build your student's reading skills effectively.

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This article focuses on the different ways technology use supports reading instruction in a modern day classroom.  With a strong focus on technology based learning, authors Gina Biancarosa and Gina G. Griffths focus on some ways technology is used to build reading skills and overall knowledge to strengthen reading abilities. Lastly, this article talks about different technology based products such as e-reading, hardware, and software to enhance reading instruction as well as improving a students ability to read with the help of technology.

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[PDF] Technology Tools to Support Reading in the Digital Age | Semantic Scholar

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Summary : Advances in digital technologies are dramatically altering the texts and tools available to teachers and students. These technological advances have created excitement among many for their potential to be used as instructional tools for literacy education. Yet with the promise of these advances come issues that can exacerbate the literacy challenges identified in the other articles in this issue.

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Reading fluency assessment and instruction: What, why, and how?

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Reading fluency assessment and instruction: What, why, and how?

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This article focuses on the basic concepts of reading fluency. Focusing on key components such as rate and proficiency, Hudson, Lane, and Pullen share their methods behind evidence based instruction to help develop and support fluent readers. All three authors also share some helpful techniques to help support and improve students reading on multiple levels as well as instructional methods to help prosody.

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Motivating and engaging students in reading

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Motivating and engaging students in reading

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Within this article, written by Jenna Cambria and John T. Guthrie, the two key components of reading are discussed.  These include the skills it takes for reading and also the will, or the motivation students have to want to read. This articles has a strong focus surrounding the different ways students learn to read through motivation, interest, confidence, and dedication. This article also shares different planning strategies when teaching reading as well as giving students choice during reading instruction.

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Fluency: The Bridge From Decoding to Reading Comprehension

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Fluency: The Bridge From Decoding to Reading Comprehension

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This article describes the true importance reading fluency has on the reading process.  John J. Pilulski and David J. Chard describe how essential reading fluency connects to overall comprehension.  Using Ehri's four stages of reading development, both authors describe the development of a skilled reader. Lastly, different strategies are shared such as modeling reading, chunking of text, and word reading practice to help develop and support students learning proper fluency.

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The Essentials of Early Literacy Instruction

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The Essentials of Early Literacy Instruction

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This article explains the importance of developing a true foundation of literacy skills before entering a school environment. Learning skills such as the alphabet, phonemic awareness, text structure, and spelling children can begin to familiarize themselves with common reading skills before they enter the primary grades.  This article is also written in question/answer format where all three authors are answering common questions in regards to timing and effectiveness for young children to begin listening, reading, and writing. Lastly, different strategies are shared such as reader's theatre and role playing to expose children to situations where they may be asked to read and respond aloud to others.

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"Action planning is also a time for reflection - reflection on where you have been, what you have learned, and where you are going" (Mills, 2014, p.167).

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"Your goal is to understand what is happening in your school or classroom and to determine what might improve things in that context" (Sagor, 1992, p.29).
Three Important Qualities: Generalizability, Validity, Reliability

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-roll and read
-making words (magnets)
-"I say, you say" (see and say)
-alphabetical order
-Say it, clap it, build it, use it, write it
-phonics
-writing (basic sentences, counting words)
-project reading: framing your thoughts (writing)

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What every teacher needs to know about comprehension

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What every teacher needs to know about comprehension

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This article focuses on the importance of reading comprehension. Laura Pardo shares various ways teachers can support readers through decoding skills, building fluency, activating prior knowledge, motivation, and building vocabulary.  Pardo also explains the significance the reader plays in comprehension as well as the text. This article explains different strategies for teachers to use when scaffolding instruction and also making connections with comprehension through writing.

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This article, written by Derry Koralek, explains the importance of reading aloud to children from a parent and/or educators point of view. Within the article, Koralek shares the many benefits of beginning to read to children as babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and continuing through primary school aged children. Koralek also touches on the importance of having children listen to an adult read aloud in order to begin to make connections between reading, listening, and looking at pictures. Most importantly, this article models how children will first be introduced to a fluent reader.

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This article, written by Timothy Rasinski, explains the different ways to improve reading fluency. Rasinski expresses his experience by sharing his personal connections with students who may have understood phonics and decoding words (in isolation) but when it comes to reading fluency, they struggled tremendously. With a strong focus around automaticity, Rasinski shares his experience instructing students with various strategies while also discovering the connections reading fluency has with reading comprehension.

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YA Author Chat

Four young adult authors-J. Elle (Wings of Ebony), Margarita Engle (With a Star in My Hand), Loan Le (A Phở Love Story), and Britteny Morris (The Cost of Knowing)-discuss why diverse books matter for all students as part of a moderated conversation led by educator Tanya Johnson Martin.

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Four young adult authors-J. Elle (Wings of Ebony ), Margarita Engle (With a Star in My Hand ), Loan Le (A Phở Love Story ), and Britteny Morris (The Cost of Knowing )-discuss why diverse books matter for all students as part of a moderated conversation led by educator Tanya Johnson Martin.

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-1st year I am using this program
-Brand new to our district
-Teacher read aloud, anchor text, vocabulary cards, work books, write in readers, completely online access
-reading and writing together
-grammar skill for each week
-very basic writing, build as weeks progress
-making connections (text-text, text-world, text-self)
-I am currently using grade 1 Journeys with my grade 2 resource students (due to their reading level and needs)

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Journeys Reading And Literacy Common Core Curriculum | HMH

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With Journeys, readers are inspired by authentic, award-winning text, becoming confident that they are building necessary skills . Order from HMH today!

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-Used within my elementary resource classroom (students in grades K-5)
-Lower grades work on letter recognition before actually reading.
-Leveled reading books
-Assessed 3 times per year
-Rubrics
-Differentiating reading centers using DRA scores
-Fluency, Rate, Accuracy
-Ability to answer a variety of comprehension questions
-Choosing correct level