Fluency

spending more money, but the more you spend, the less efficacious each dollar becomes. The fact that two full years of instruction have almost zero effect implies that massive spending increases would be required to noticeably raise foreign language fluency. Think about all the Canadian adults who don't speak French after a decade of required…

components or early literacy. DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (DORF) is a measure of advanced phonics and word attack skills, accurate and fluent reading of connected text and reading comprehension. The passages and procedures that are included are based on the program of research and development of Curriculum-Based Measurement of reading by Stan Deno and colleagues at the University of Minnesota. (Deno, 1989) The two components of DORF are oral reading fluency and the passage retell. The probes…

improvements that will help them with the writing STAAR. To enhance their understanding of expository passages, they were assigned writing stations which focused on ideas, organization, development of ideas, word choice/conventions, and sentence fluency. After thorough realization and days of working, Nitish Baskar’s understanding of expository essays expanded and he realized that focusing on one controlling idea, adding more sentence variations, and developing commentary to back up evidence is…

For this assignment, we had to write our own story about moral courage. For this assignment, we had to write our own story about moral courage. I chose the moral courage essay because it demonstrates that I understand sentence fluency because I had few conventional errors. It also shows that I am able to use a wide vocabulary. The artifact also demonstrates that I know the writing process because I used the rubric and plot chart to create my…

third grade, Isaac could not meet benchmark goals consistently and he was entered into the SRBI process. He has since been receiving intervention primarily in reading and writing on a daily basis. On the third grade end of the year Dibels reading fluency test, Isaac was only reading 72 words per minute, when the goal for the end of the year in third grade is 100…

The first component is a literacy-rich environment. In a literacy-rich environment there are lots of reading opportunities for the students. This includes an inviting environment, accessibility to different level books and opportunities to read independently. Classroom A and Classroom B both create this positive literacy-rich environment. First, we are going to review each classroom literacy-rich environment separately. In Classroom A there are multiple literacy opportunities for the students…

a possible outcome of the text. She notices the first letter of each word and sequences the others to predict an outcome. Her self-corrections are based on memory, and her comprehension is evident. Her slow, deliberate reading appears to increase fluency and together with the visual and written text; the student was able to…

The title of the article is called “The Stop and Go Phonemic Awareness Game: Providing Modeling, Practice, and Feedback” and it is written by Jill Howard Allor, Kristin A. Gansle, and R. Kenton Denny. The authors define phonemic awareness as “the ability to recognize the individual sounds within spoken words” and it is a critical skill needed to be successful with reading acquisition (Allor, Gansle, & Denny, 2006). The authors discuss the importance of explicitly teaching phonemic awareness…

stuttering in one form or another. The nervous anxiety we feel before giving a presentation, getting ready for your first big interview, or even just a simple phone call can trigger the onset of stuttering. Stuttering, stammering, or childhood onset fluency disorder is a speech disorder that disrupts the normal flow of speech. A normal flow of speech includes seamless continuity, sound rate of speech, overall rhythm, and how much effort it takes for one to talk. A disruption in any one or more…

Colin is reading for fluency at low fourth grade level, however, when reading at this level, he has a great amount of difficulty understanding the text. Colin does well answering basic “in-text,” wh- questions after receiving guided reading instruction, but occasionally displays…