Transcript Developing Fluent Readers and Writers

Developing Fluent
Readers and Writers
Why do students need to learn to read
and write high-frequency words?
What strategies do students learn to
use to recognize unfamiliar words?
How do students become fluent
readers?
Why is fluency important?
Ms. Williams’ High-Frequency
Word Instruction
 Thematic Units of Study with Fiction &
Non-Fiction Texts
 Word Wall/ Word Manipulatives
 Interactive Writing
 Literacy Centers: Retelling, Science,
Word Work, Listening, Word Wall,
Writing, Word Sort, Library (student
aides)
 Language Experience Approach
 Choral Reading
Goals in teaching students
to read and write
 Word Recognition:  Word Identification:
the quick and easy the ability to figure
out the
pronunciation or
pronunciation or
spelling of a
spelling of an
familiar
unfamiliar word
using a strategy
word
such as syllabic
analysis
Word Recognition Strategies
 High-Frequency, “Sight Words,” are not
easily decodable
 Word Walls / Word Work Centers
 Making Words Tiles, Magnetic Letters, Paint
Bags, Sidewalk Chalk
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Introduce Words in Context
Chant/Clap the Spelling of New Words
Interactive Writing / L.E.A.
Class Books
Word Identification Strategies
 Phonic Analysis – using sound / symbol
relationships & patterns to decode & spell
 By Analogy – using knowledge of rhyming
words to deduce a pronunciation or spelling;
focus on word families or rimes
 Syllabic Analysis – breaking words into
syllables before using phonics & analogies;
also known as “chunking”
 Morphemic Analysis – applying knowledge
of root words & affixes to identify unfamiliar
words through the meaning of all parts
What is Fluency?
 Fluency is the ability to read effectively and
involves three components:
 Reading Rate – the speed at which students
read (fluent reading = 100 words / minute)
 Word Recognition – automatic recognition of
high-frequency words
 Prosody – the ability to orally read sentences
with appropriate phrasing and intonation
Why is fluency
so important for
young readers?
Promoting Reading Fluency
 Repeated Readings
 Teaching Phrasing (chunking
sentences)
 Choral Reading / Unison Reading
 Readers Theatre
 Echo Reading
 Listening Centers
 Shared Reading
 Buddy Reading
 Closed Captioning