Reading

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Reading

• Paradigms
• Challs stages to reading
• Early Literacy Issues
• Phonological awareness
• Fluency concerns
• Comprehending Text
• LEApproach
• Programs

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Challs Stages of Reading
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Phonological Awareness preparation

• Phonemic segmentation
• Phoneme manipulation
• Syllable-splitting
• Blending
• Oddity
• Deletion

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Assessing oral reading

• Word recognition accuracy on word list
• 100 independent 95 instructional 90
  frustration
• Comprehension accuracy
• 90 independent 75 instructional 50 frustration
• Fluency includes rate and prosody
• -between 100-140 wpm at grade level
• Display Great Leaps activities

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Increasing Fluency

• Have students practice high-frequency words
• Have student read words, phrases, or passages in
  timed sessions
• Use repeated readings until fluency is developed
• Model fluent reading
• Have students model reading to each other
• Conduct a readers theater where students read
  with voice inflections
• Review new vocabulary prior to reading a story or
  text (multisensory techniques are most effective)

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Improving ComprehensionDr. Nancy Corbett, Ph.D.

• Improve Fluency
• Repeated Readings
• Provide Taped Stories
• Use Keywords
• Story Maps
• Encourage Metacognition
• Teach Paraphrasing
• Mnemonics
• Be creative

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Language Experience ApproachMercer p.541-2
Winebrenner

• Teaching reading based upon a students oral and
  written expression
• Student draws picture or talks about an event
• Teacher writes down the story
• Student works on the dictated words individually
  (Elkonin boxes)
• Student gradually writes his/her own story
• What are the benefits of such a program?

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Sum it up

• What is fluency?
• How can we improve it?
• What is phonological awareness?
• Name three tasks in helping students develop it.
• What are the three best predictors of reading
  achievement for young children?
• How can we help improve reading comprehension?