Response to Allington
Latrisha Easey
Please answer ONLY four of the following questions regarding the Allington fluency article.
1. What does the study by Marsha Buly and Sheila Valencia (2002) tell us about putting too much stress simply on rate and accuracy?
Marsha Buly and Sheila Valencia’s study found that one of five students who failed a state fourth-grade reading test were automatic decoders but had little comprehension. (pg.95) Putting too stress on rate and accuracy is not helping students with comprehension. Student focusing on the accuracy and rate is problematic because they believe that will help them perform efficiently. Students need to put as much focus into actually understanding what they are reading as they do on rate and accuracy. Accuracy is important because knowing the words helps the student better understand but if the students are just reading to get a quick speed they do not understand what they read, which hurts them when taking …show more content…
Relate this sentence (pg. 95) from the article (“Fluency , reading in phrases with appropriate intonation and prosody, seems an important characteristic of effective reading.”) to YOUR Goodyear student.
My Goodyear student does need help with fluency because she does read like a robot when reading certain material. If she had appropriate intonation and prosody she would be an effective reader I believe. I think she thinks too hard about what she is reading and making sure she gets the words correct, instead of reading fluently. I can really tell that it is important to read with appropriate expression because it does affect the understanding of the reading material. Reading to just get the words correct does not help with comprehension, which my student struggles with as well.
3. Discuss your tutoring role as an “external monitor” as defined by Allington. Which of his seven aspects of “struggling readers” or six aspects of “better readers” do you currently engender or attempt to avoid as a
Latrisha Easey
Please answer ONLY four of the following questions regarding the Allington fluency article.
1. What does the study by Marsha Buly and Sheila Valencia (2002) tell us about putting too much stress simply on rate and accuracy?
Marsha Buly and Sheila Valencia’s study found that one of five students who failed a state fourth-grade reading test were automatic decoders but had little comprehension. (pg.95) Putting too stress on rate and accuracy is not helping students with comprehension. Student focusing on the accuracy and rate is problematic because they believe that will help them perform efficiently. Students need to put as much focus into actually understanding what they are reading as they do on rate and accuracy. Accuracy is important because knowing the words helps the student better understand but if the students are just reading to get a quick speed they do not understand what they read, which hurts them when taking …show more content…
Relate this sentence (pg. 95) from the article (“Fluency , reading in phrases with appropriate intonation and prosody, seems an important characteristic of effective reading.”) to YOUR Goodyear student.
My Goodyear student does need help with fluency because she does read like a robot when reading certain material. If she had appropriate intonation and prosody she would be an effective reader I believe. I think she thinks too hard about what she is reading and making sure she gets the words correct, instead of reading fluently. I can really tell that it is important to read with appropriate expression because it does affect the understanding of the reading material. Reading to just get the words correct does not help with comprehension, which my student struggles with as well.
3. Discuss your tutoring role as an “external monitor” as defined by Allington. Which of his seven aspects of “struggling readers” or six aspects of “better readers” do you currently engender or attempt to avoid as a