Fluency

Controversial Topic on Illegal Immigration.” The first essay in my portfolio was a cause and effect paper on divorce. This was my best piece of writing for this class, but there were still a lot of changes I could make. One of the problems was that my fluency of my essay was not quite up to par. Also grammar, and wording was another problem that was occurring in this essay. I needed to reread my essay, and analyze it carefully to avoid these things. For the portfolio I went back and reread my…

read aloud, fluency rate and their ability to retell the information that was read. The test consists of a list of twenty words for each grade level from pre-primer to high school level. The complexity of the words gradually increased by grade level. I administered this assessment on October 26, 2016, to find out Shevaun’s instructional reading level to…

Stuttering is a speech disorder that involves significant problems with the normal fluency of speech. Fluency is a component of speech production that “refers to the smoothness, rate, and effort of speech” (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, p. 1). Stuttering is an interruption in the flow of speaking in which “sounds, syllables, or words are repeated or prolonged, disrupting the rate and rhythm of speech” (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2014, p. 1).…

[The summary of this assessment shows that 50% of the class has the conceptual understanding of regrouping. The procedural fluency for this learning segment was to apply the procedures and steps to correctly regroup which 50% of the class was able to do. 50% of the class was able to use their problem-solving skills in order to correctly solve all problems on the formative assessment. Everyone in the class received at least one question right on this assessment. Everyone in this class made an…

read and the writing that I find fun to write. In the ”fun to write” category I would place argumentative, and my favorite type of writing to read is narrative. Some of the areas in writing I could work on include but are not limited to, sentence fluency and organization. My favorite type of writing to write is argumentative because of my ability to express my opinion and look back at it. It…

The first speech impediment that children face is stuttering. Stuttering is a speech impediment in which the eloquence and normal flow of speech is compromised. (“Stuttering”). Stuttering usually involves the recurrence of syllables or one-syllable words. For example, when a child with the condition of stuttering tries to say the word “it” he or she might speak it as “it-it-it”. Also, when the child wants to say “mother” they may pronounce it as “mo-mo-mo-mother”. Prolongation is a form of…

In the show Between the Lions they use different methods to teach children phonemic awareness, phonetics, fluency, vocabulary development, and more. When I was a child I watched this show almost daily with my sisters. I liked the fact that it was educational and entertaining with how they used catchy songs to appeal to children. In this specific episode the way they taught phonetics stood out to me. They took the word “west” from the first song and turned it into the word “best” by taking out…

My formal evaluation for the students is a google form. Since I am a first grade teacher, I chose to use a smiley face ranking so that students could associate the question with how they feel. I chose three students to go through the online module and then take the evaluation as well as my SME. I have asked Michelle Castillo to be my SME. She serves as the Instructional Support Teacher for ELA for Fayette County. She has previously taught grades 2-5 and now works under the ELA coordinator…

modifications and adaptations to the curriculum and materials in all subjects. His reading, writing and mathematical abilities are currently below those of general education fifth grade students. In reading, Cris demonstrates his difficulties with in both fluency and comprehension. In Math he shows the most difficulty with reasoning, problem solving and computation. Additionally, Cristofer struggles to complete writing assignments across all academic areas without teacher…

I know that my case study student struggles with fluency because he struggles with accuracy, speed, and expression. Most of his struggle in oral fluency comes from his insecurity when coming across words he doesn’t know. When doing my DIBELS assessment I noticed how my student struggled with his words per minute was around 51 and his correct words per…