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Strategies for Reading Success
Looking at the BIG picture…
Fluency Comprehension
… creating synergy around reading success.
Strategies for Reading Success
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. When fluent readers read silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly in ways that help them gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking.”
Put Reading First, 2001
Strategies for Reading Success
Fluency is the ability to read with sufficient
ease and accuracy that one can focus attention
on the meaning and message of text.”
Adams, 2002
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The majority of children who experience reading
problems in elementary schools have early
difficulties acquiring automaticity at the
phoneme and word levels beginning in
Kindergarten.
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To build automaticity that results in stronger DORF and TRC application, we need to focus on
NWF – CLS
Strategy: Mapping
• Activities:
Sound Runs
Mix It Up
Read Aloud: Yo Yes!
How does the text Yo Yes! support the
development of prosody?
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Strategies for Reading Success
Prosody
The compilation of spoken language features that
includes stress or emphasis, pitch variations,
intonation, reading rate, and pausing.”
Osborn & Lehr, 2003
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Jig Saw the Articles: Why Prosody Matters
• With your partner or team note the three key
facts or concepts from your reading.
• Create a visual to represent the key concepts
from your section of the article.
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• Use of scripts (plays, poetry, expository text)
• No costumes, props, or scenery
• Multiple opportunities for meaningful practice
Activities
• Silly Sentence
• Stress Points in Poetry
• Content Based Readers’ Theater
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Strategies for Reading Success
“The purpose of reading is understanding.”
therefore
Reading IS Thinking
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Once thought of as the natural result of decoding
plus oral language, comprehension is now
viewed as a much more complex process
involving knowledge, experience, thinking and
teaching.”
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• When students asking themselves probing questions it help to set the purpose for reading and propels then forward during the reading process.
• Self-Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify key points of understanding while making critical connection necessary for making meaning. Self-questioning is at the heart of thoughtful reading.
• Harvey and Goudvis
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The effectiveness of instruction in
comprehension strategies depends critically
on how they are taught, supported, and
practiced.
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Points to remember when working to build
comprehension
Provide ways to extend of conceptual and factual knowledge.
Increase the knowledge and skill in use of cognitive strategies
to improve comprehension or repair it when it breaks down.
Expand students use of reasoning and inferential skills to
accelerate academic growth.
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It is critical that students are continuously
interacting with lots of text across their academic
day if we want create classrooms that grow
readers.
Strategies for Reading Success
Contact Information
Judy Goins
Region 6 Literacy Consultant
judy.goins@dpi.nc.gov