Summary:
The students will use digital recorders, timers, instructional level reading
passages, and Progress Charts to improve reading fluency.
First Grade Standards:
Language Arts:
1.1.1,
1.1.3,
1.1.4,
1.1.5,
1.1.14,
1.1.15,
1.1.16,
1.1.17
Objectives
1.1.6,
1.1.9,
1.1.10,
1.1.11,
1.1,12,
1.1.13,
The students will be able to distinguish between reading with
fluency and reading word by word. They will be able to use
strategies to improve reading fluency.
Students must have decoding strategies and knowledge of
Pre-Requisite grade level Dolch words. Students must also have experience
using a timer and digital recorder. Students must also have
Knowledge
familiarity with the Reading Fluency Strategies chart.
Reading passages at various instructional levels.
Printed
Several blank graphs for students to mark progress.
Materials
Digital Voice Recorders (total of 6)
Other
Digital timers (total of 6)
Supplies
Pencils, markers, crayons.
Getting Started (Daily) 10 minutes
As a warm up activity, teacher will model reading fluency with a Reading
Raindrop passage and select 2-3 students to demonstrate fluency for the
class. Teacher will refer to the Reading Fluency Strategies Chart for
reminders.
Direct Instruction (Daily) 10 minutes
Teacher will review fluency strategies and Strategy Chart with a big book.
Teacher will model fluency with exaggeration and ask students to critique
reading.
Guided Practice- (3 Days) 15 minutes each group
In small groups (ability based) students will chorally read a passage while the
teacher records it and sets a timer to 1 minute. Students will circle the last word
they read in the passage. The number of words read in 1 minute will be
recorded on the Progress Chart. After listening to the recording, students will
comment on fluency strategies used referring to the Strategies Chart. This
guided practice will be repeated for 3 days.
Independent Practice (5 Days) 20 minutes
Students will be paired up (by teacher) with a new passage and
repeat the guided practice activities. One student will set the timer
and recorder, and help fill in the Progress Chart. Then the students will
switch roles.
Closure
The class will have a discussion about reading by listening to the passages on the
recorders. They will make a group list of things that they did well and set goals with
their individual graphs to chart progress.
ESL students without decoding skills in English and non-readers will receive
additional support from an adult who will read with them and model good
fluency.
Students without decoding skills or Dolch words will read ABC charts w/ letter
sound, read orally with a taped passage, or choral read with a partner/teacher.
Students will be assessed by through the graphs they complete that chart their
progress.
The
The dog
The dog barked
The dog barked and
The dog barked and wagged
The dog barked and wagged
The dog barked and wagged its
The dog barked and wagged its tail
The dog barked and wagged its tail for
The dog barked and wagged its tail for a
The dog barked and wagged its tail for a bone.
Lesson 23: Hang On, Rose! p. 184
Ransom/Shockley 2009
Copyright Theresa Haler
Fluent Readers…
1. Read with good phrasing and pacing.
2.
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3. Change voice for
4.
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Read with expression
bold print.
Reading Passage: The Fighting Cats
A gray cat and a black cat did not get along.
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The cats’ owner said, “I’m stepping out for
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awhile, and I don’t want any fighting.”
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While the cats slept, two strange cats of the
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same colors entered the house.
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The gray cat slept soundly and did not hear
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the strange cats enter. The black cat did not
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hear them, either. The strange cats fought. They
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left gray and black fur all over the house.
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When the cats’ owner came home, he saw gray
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and black fur all over the house. He scolded his
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cats for fighting. The cats were puzzled.
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Ariel Middleton
Name:________________________________________________________
The Fighting Cats
Reading Passage Title:_________________________________________
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