Developing Fluent Readers and Writers

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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?

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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

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Goals in teaching students to read and write

• Word Recognition
• the quick and easy
• pronunciation or
• spelling of a
• familiar
• word

• Word Identification
• the ability to figure out the pronunciation
  or spelling of an unfamiliar word using a
  strategy such as syllabic analysis

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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
• Introduce Words in Context
• Chant/Clap the Spelling of New Words
• Interactive Writing / L.E.A.
• Class Books

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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

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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

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Why is fluency so important for young readers?
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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