https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk Strategies and Resources for Developing Fluency Skills en-us 2017-03-06 23:25:47 UTC 2024-08-14 20:29:45 UTC hello@padlet.com optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158203143 This website provides examples of free technologies that help to improve fluency skills with audio-assisted reading.]]> 2017-03-06 23:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158203143 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158223688 Starfall is an educational website that provides free games and activities to help children develop reading skills using phonics.]]> 2017-03-07 02:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158223688 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158224144 "The ability to read rapidly, smoothly, without many errors, and with appropriate expression" (Graves 224).]]> 2017-03-07 02:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158224144 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158225212 This website provides descriptions and activities for basic fluency strategies such as repeated reading, paired reading, and echo reading.]]> 2017-03-07 03:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158225212 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158226385 Reader's theater is a reading fluency strategy that involves students reading scripts with feeling and expression in front of an audience, but without the memorization of lines, costumes, prompts, scenery, make-up, and other features of a full-blown play performance (Graves 232).

The attached video below shows students using the Reader's Theater strategy with the text, If You Give a Mouse A Cookie.]]> 2017-03-07 03:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158226385 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158227337 2017-03-07 03:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158227337 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158227930 Partner reading is a fluency strategy in which more capable readers pair up with less capable peers and take turns reading to each other, with the stronger partner reading each passage first and the less strong reader following (Graves 231).]]> 2017-03-07 03:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158227930 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158228416 2017-03-07 03:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158228416 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158230707 Choral reading is a fluency approach in which the teacher reads a passage aloud as a model and then has students read it aloud in unison several times (Graves 232).]]> 2017-03-07 04:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158230707 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158232145 2017-03-07 04:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158232145 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158232277 This is an activity that can be used to improve young students' fluency and comprehension skills.]]> 2017-03-07 04:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158232277 optearbear22 https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158233223 2017-03-07 04:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/optearbear22/5rlomm9a9ysk/wish/158233223