F'B'I' Fluency Building Investigations

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F.B.I.Fluency Building Investigations
Presented By Opal Dixon
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What is Fluency?
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Defined Fluency involves not only speed,
accuracy, and automaticity but also the use of
appropriate phrasing, intonation, and expression
to convey an authors intentions and to
demonstrate understanding. (Prescott-Griffin,
Witherell pg. ix, 2004)
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Components of Fluency

• Accuracy
• Automaticity
• Expressiveness, Naturalness, Smoothness, and Flow

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What does a child who lacks fluency sound like?

• A student who lacks fluency may sound choppy,
  robotic, or speedy.
• Meet Nathan, John, Carol

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Case Studies

• Nathan
• John
• Carol

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Stages of Fluency Development

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3
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2

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Accuracy

• Purpose of reading is to comprehend what is read
• Accuracy means to do with care
• Reading words correctly does affect comprehension

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Accuracy Teaching Strategies

• Catch the Mistake
• Cooking Class
• Show and Tell
• Reporter

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Slow Unsteady

• What was the main idea of the story?
• What events took place in the story?
• Name the main character(s).
• Identify the problem.
• What was the resolution to the problem?
• What was the best part?

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Automaticity

• Allows the reader to concentrate on the meaning
  of the text instead of on decoding the words
• Ability to recognize words quickly in order to
  keep the pace moving

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Automaticity Teaching Strategies

• Choral Reading Millions of Cats
• Automatic Cars
• Assembly Line
• My Friend, My Friend

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Expressiveness

• Phrasing, Rate, and Intonation
• Tone changes to match characters and punctuation
  in the story
• When the phrase is read with the proper
  expression, the true meaning comes through

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Excerpt from Hey, Little Antby Phillip and
Hannah Hoose

• Kid Hey, little ant down in the crack,
• Can you hear me? Can you talk back?
• See my shoe, can you see that?
• Well now its gonna squish you flat.
• Ant Please, oh please, do not squish me, Change
  your mind and let me be,
• Im on my way with a crumb of pie,
• Please, oh please, dont make me die!

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Expressiveness

• Reading Clues
• Intonation
• Expression Bingo

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? ALL CAPS!
Quotation Marks
Ellipsis
Exclamation Point!
Question Mark?
ALL CAPS
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Intonation

• Recite as a conversation
• ABC? DE. FGH! I? JKL. MN? OPQ! RST! UV? WX. YZ!
  123. 4! 567? 89. 10!

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Intonation

• Recite using different ending punctuation
• Cows moo. Dogs bark?
• Cows moo? Dogs bark.
• Cows moo! Dogs bark!

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Intonation

• Placing stress on different words
• Matt loves spaghetti and meatballs.
• Matt loves spaghetti and meatballs.
• Matt loves spaghetti and meatballs.

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Expression Bingo

• Write one of the four words below in each space
  on your game board.
• sad
• excited
• happy
• angry

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Expression Bingo
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Naturalness, Smoothness, Flow

• Choppy
• Using phrases rather than word-by-word reading
• Avoiding filler words like uh, like, yknow

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Naturalness, Smoothness, Flow

• Telephone Tag
• Where in the World?
• I have Synonym Antonym Suffixes

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Telephone Tag

• Fluent readers read at a speed similar to talking
• The goal is not to read as quickly as possible,
  but to read in a natural speaking rate. (May need
  to be read slower or faster)
• Hurry! Everybody hide or well ruin the surprise!
• Slowly, the snail slithered down, down, down the
  window.

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Performance

• Readers Theatre
• Antiphonal Reading
• The Great Debate
• Oh, Say Can You Sing?

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Fluent Flo

• Accurate
• Automatic
• Expressive
• Smooth

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Coaching Readers

• A reader is not attending to text signals such
  as punctuation or print variations (boldface,
  capitals, italics).
• Reading is slow, halting, or choppy or
  inappropriately expressive.
• A reader has trouble understanding what he has
  read.
• A reader seems to be unaware of his disfluency.

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Fluency Round-Up

• Practice! Practice! Practice!

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Fluency Round-up

• Materials
• Library Pockets, Index Cards, Display Board
• Rules
• Divide students into teams.
• Students take turns selecting an amount and a
  category.
• The answer must be stated in question form.
• Example Went up the hill?
• Who is Jack Jill!
• Once all the categories have been selected, the
  team with the most points wins!

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Fluency Round-up

• Categories
• Nursery Rhyme Phrases
• Chunking Words
• Expression
• Word Sorts

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Thank You for Participating!

• FBI
• Fluency Building Investigations

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