Ideas about Literacy by Laura Flessner https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02 What in the text spoke to you? Did you have a favorite quote? What is your opinion on the importance of fluency? Please refer to the text. en-us 2017-10-17 04:07:17 UTC 2017-10-18 04:15:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Horace Mann: "over 90% of students in reading classes do not understand what they read." p. 288 sbrown130 https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084229

]]> 2017-10-18 03:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084229 https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084334 Oral reading is how we assess fluency but comprehension is often lost through oral reading. Further research needs to be done to determine how to help students transfer oral reading fluency to silent reading. 
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I am going to question my site's use of a list of words for our fluency assessment. ]]> 2017-10-18 03:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084334 Definition of Fluency https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084387 Expanding our definition of fluency by thinking beyond rate and accuracy to include comprehension of the text (p. 286)

Next Steps: Emphasizing the connection between accuracy/rate and comprehension with my students]]> 2017-10-18 03:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084387 90% of students in reading vlasses do not understand what they read https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084424 2017-10-18 03:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084424 Relationship between prosody and comprehension BUT "Whether prosody is a precursor or an outcome of reading comprehension has yet to be fully established" (294) https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084492 Next steps:  More opportunities for teaching prosody...chunking phrases...rereading texts...using technology for fluency practice]]> 2017-10-18 03:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084492 Poor readers are less able than good readers to employ automatic, attention free, bottom up processes in decoding while reading https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084550 2017-10-18 03:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084550 I thought it was interesting that the early 20th century- standardized testing movement called for students to understand how to read silently. Reading instruction was tailored to a test tarahherning https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084616 next step: tailor reading instruction to meet more individual student needs/ needs of groups of students ]]> 2017-10-18 03:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084616 Skilled readers can read fluently independent of context compared to less skilled readers who rely on context to predict unfamiliar words. sbrown130 https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084689 Next steps: Use best practices for teaching fluency- same strategies used with ELLs benefit all students (i.e. focus on vocabulary & context)]]> 2017-10-18 03:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084689 Less skilled readers...rely more on context to predict unfamiliar words https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084695 2017-10-18 03:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084695 p. 288 Reading material became more easily accessible which made the need for oral reading decline. jholden4 https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084719 Next steps]]> 2017-10-18 03:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198084719 Integrate best practices of fluency development in everyday classroom instruction. https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089372 2017-10-18 04:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089372 Figure out what we are wanting to learn from assessing students on fluency https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089403 2017-10-18 04:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089403 At the end of the school year, when most kindergarteners are reading, I want to start using readers theater for fluency. jholden4 https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089438 I also plan to put more focus on the fluency strategies from the CAFE menu]]> 2017-10-18 04:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lflessner/29co7xk8yl02/wish/198089438