Here’s a visual of a strategy for working with small groups during Independent Work Time at the elementary level. This works if you have at least a 20-40 minute block of time to work with students and can spend at least 10 minutes with two groups each day. The idea is that you meet briefly …
Category: Fluency
Reading Fluency vs. Reading for Speed
In California, our unit assessments which align with the Open Court Reading series aren’t from the publishers of Open Court but from the Sacramento County Office of Education. The tests’ emphasis on timing students reading leads teachers to teach reading in a dibels-like fashion with reading passages typed with numbers of words written at the …
Free Accelerated Reader Program
submitted by Ann Miani A FREE at home AR-like Reading Program, go to www.BookAdventure.com
Reader’s Theater FAQ
Cable in the Classroom readers: If you’re looking for examples of our video projects, see Video in the Classroom.com Reader’s Theater is a fantastic way to increase reading fluency by providing students with an authentic reason to reread. It also benefits reading comprehension by placing students inside stories.What is it? Reader’s theater involves reading a …
Reading Fluency Benchmarks: A Reasonable Approach
How to help students meet their goals and improve self-esteem (yours as well as theirs) by Mathew Needleman, Open Court Resources.com Say Goodbye to Fluency Charts First let me tell you what I do not do. I do not put up a fluency chart on the wall showing where everyone is reading. Gail Tompkins confirmed …