A As For Felicia Character Analysis

Felicia is a student who is primarily struggling with the process of fluency. Felicia's teacher Laura noticed that her word recognition is one of the highest in the classroom, but Felicia takes almost three times longer to read then most of the students. Her reading is choppy and many times sounds more like she's reading a word list than a story. Felicia doesn’t read in sentences she reads word by word making her reading process extremely slow. Laura struggles with trying to figure out what to do to help Felicia with her reading and fluency.

Every day Felicia’s teacher, Laura, gives students ten minutes of free reading. Each day during this free read Felicia is reading a new book. Felicia’s fluency skills could be improved by encouraging her to read the same book every day. Word recognition will result from Felicia sticking with one text. Felicia’s comprehension skills will also improve when she begins to read these texts more fluently. …show more content…
Laura could pull Felicia aside during this free read and read with Felicia. Echo reading would be a good way to build word recognition. Laura could fist read the sentence and then have Felicia repeat the sentence following along in the book with her finger word by word. Laura can look for other things such as Felicia not reading with expression, growing frustration when trying to read, and moving her mouth when reading silently. Some other ways Laura, as a teacher, could help Felicia is by giving her independent level text to repeatedly practice, read a short passage to Felicia and then have her repeat it back to her, or have Felicia imitate her voice after she read her a