Session 1
Reading in the Content Areas
Fluency in Expository Text
Readings
Question: How many minutes
per day do good readers read
on their own?
What would you guess?
Make a prediction and share with an
‘elbow partner’
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Answer– a LOT!!!!!
(BTW– How many minutes each day do YOU read?)
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Imagine if you practiced shooting free throws
every day just five minutes each day for four
months.
At the end of that time, how would your free
throw shooting compare to your shooting if did
not practice?
Reading fluency is the same—time on task
improves performance!
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Reading Fluency Skills
ACCURACY- Involves translating
letters-to-sounds-to-words effortlessly and
accurately or AUTOMATICITY.
EXPRESSION- refers to the reader’s ability to use
proper intonation or expression (i.e., PROSODY or
QUALITY.
Appropriate reading or SPEED according to the
reader’s purpose or the type of passage.
GOAL – Repeated Readings of the same text to improve the above skills.
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CHORAL READING
Three types are effective…
• UNISON
• ECHO (also called “ECHOIC”)
• ANTIPHONAL
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… ALL CHORAL READING STRATEGIES CAN
BE DONE WHOLE GROUP, OR WITH
STUDENTS READING IN PAIRS
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Why “Whole-Class?”
1. Individualized reading instruction is typically
not possible.
2. “Anonymity”
3. Modeling
4. Efficient
5. Multiple rewards
6. Easy to implement
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What is UNISON READING?
Unison reading is where
everyone reads together….
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Let’s Practice Unison Reading
River Flooding
When a fast-moving mountain stream flows
onto a flat plain, the stream slows down.
As the stream slows down, it deposits
alluvium where the mountain meets the flat
plain, forming an alluvial fan.
Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits that form
on dry land.
What is ECHO READING?
Echo (sometimes called echoic)
reading has the teacher or a student
(if students are in pairs) read a
passage aloud, then everyone else
“echoes” by repeating it.
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ANTIPHONAL READING
Derived from ancient monastic traditions,
antiphonal reading has two groups.
The first reading group, or person, if they
are reading in pairs, reads a passage aloud
(usually a sentence or two), and the
second group reads the following
line(s).
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Buddy Reading
Buddy reading (also know as paired
reading, peer reading, partner reading,
and dyads) is a repeated reading strategy
that has two students reading together a
passage you assign them over and over
for a set number of times.
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Buddy reading helps students build
reading speed with texts in your core
subject area, increases their
comprehension of what they read,
and helps increase vocabulary
knowledge.
Memphis Striving Readers Research Project
(Fall 2009)
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TIP: Give ‘em five!
5 minutes of choral reading each day using
the textbook or other materials will yield
great improvements in reading fluency and
comprehension over time
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Let’s talk about our first
CLASSROOM ACTION PLAN (CAP)
#1
(and then maybe go home for a nap!)