Fluency

words successfully. The automatic sigh word identification goal was adjusted. The Dolch World list was enhanced with the Super Speed 1000 strategy to provide Addison with extra practice of identifying the high frequency, to enhance accuracy and fluency goal. The Super Speed motivated Addison to challenge herself to achieve more stars on her progress chart. Addison received three stars and continues…

Reading is a very complex process and is difficult to teach to students with learning disabilities. No one reading program will work to teach all children with learning disabilites to read. Today, many students with learning disabilities cannot read or have limited reading skills. Parents, teachers, specialists, and advocates are extremely concerned with these results, because students are graduating without the abilities to read street signs, grocery items, or navigate around their communities.…

second language correctly, learners need to develop some characteristics or competencies, which are extremely important to domain this skill. 2.5.1.1 Fluency Speaking a language fluently is not only speaking it fast, speed is the main factor; nevertheless, there are other aspects that determine if a speaker is fluent. Research on speaking fluency found that pausing is a crucial factor, as a matter of fact proficient speakers have the ability to stop time to time to allow the formulation of an…

assign extensive reading materials with an appropriate text length and level that align with the unit topic to promote word recognition, create opportunities for comprehension skills practice, build students’ text structure awareness and reading fluency, and motivate students to…

foundational skills to be successful in the subject areas of Reading and Mathematics. Some of the common areas of weakness in reading that my students have demonstrated were in areas of phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. I noticed that phonemic awareness and phonics weaknesses frequently occurred in my first and second grade students. Those students had difficulty matching sounds and letters, which can affect their reading and spelling. They guessed at words…

Development of Word Recognition Sight Word Inventory To get a better understand of Franklin’s reading level, I administered the ____ Sight Word Inventory (______). This test consists of sight words, or words students can recognize immediately, appropriate for each grade level. Thus, as you continue through the words, they become increasingly difficult. Franklin’s instructional level is at the third-grade level. At his level, he was able sound out the beginning consonant, “r,” for the word…

Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of chunking and how useful it is in teaching and developing others in the language of English. Zimmer uses his son as a prime example of how kids of his age unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks, “or idioms,” throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these…

assessment for special education. The assessments done revealed that Student J has a specific learning disability in reading that is affecting his phonemic awareness and phonics milestones. Currently, Student J is behind grade level in phonics, and fluency as demonstrated by the DIBELS NEXT scores below. Student J is very eager to learn and does very well when identifying the beginning and ending sounds of words. Even though he has trouble with phonemic awareness and phonics, Student J loves to…

1. Thinking from a parent’s point of view, I do not think parents could look at the istation data and infer right away how to understand the data. Questions parents might ask would be how do determine my child’s score if the increments are to large to determine what the score is, what am I looking at, why is there future years listed, how do if my child did well or not, and where does it say pass or fail? If I were a parent, I would bring up questions like these because the data is represented…

E-Books to give an interactive reading experience for students. Larson argues that E-Books allow for a more customizable learning and reading experience in schools. In addition, Larson stresses the benefits E-Books provide in order to develop language fluency and vocabulary. I believe that Larson’s arguments presented in her piece are highly valuable. The attention Larson brings to E-Books highlights their benefits in a very informative manner. Larson draws…