Hello to everyone! It has been fascinating to read all of the great topics that everyone is engaged in. As far as my question, I have zoned in on "What happens when I use a variety of strategies to increase fluency for my students who are reading below grade level? How does this focus on fluency impact comprehension?". As of now, for my data collection, I am planning on using 3 (I only know of 3 currently) programs/strategies that will be my fuel to increasing fluency. The first is the Quickreads program which I have already been implementing in my classroom. The second is a "phrase chunking" initiative that I am looking into. It focuses on using written symbols in the text to clue students into reading in phrases and sections vs. the robotic reading. Lastly, I am looking into some form of timed-reading strategy in which a student feels motivated to read at a higher speed...basically by being asked to read quicker by me (I have been able to toy around with some of this in individual conferences and it is amazing how much more fluent a student will read when you just ask them to read with a bit more speed). Anyway, this is a long post now. If you have any recommendations of fluency programs you have used or heard of, please reply! Good luck with your research endeavors!
Best,
Doug
2 comments:
Doug this seems to be something that you will definatley be able to use throughout your career and the fact that you have already been putting stuff into play is awesome. I am very excited to see how this comes out for you! It will be a good possibility that I will be asking for adivice from you in this area seeming that you are digging into it:) I think your ideas to gather information is great!!!
Hi Doug,
I have a book that I have been reading that has a lot of ideas for building fluency and I will bring it to share. I also have a lot of students who struggle with fluency and the subsequent loss of comprehension because their reading is so slow and choppy. I have been trying the timed phrases and also paired reading. One positive that I have noticed with my struggling kiddos is that they are definitely motivated to improve. How about your kids? Have you noticed that the biggest hurdle to helping these kids is the limited amount of time we have each day. I've even thought about having them stay after for tutoring, but some of them are bus riders. Let me know if you are noticing some obvious results right off the bat, because I am very into this subject.
Janice
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