ESL PLC MeetingsOctober 14 & 15, 2013

What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?

Chapter 5: Fluency

LEP HeadcountESL Teacher Evaluation: Standard 6

District Disaggregated Data for Reading

David Sisk

Take a Moment and Share

Favorite Strategies from The Academic Language Accelerator

What’s Your WCPM?

• Partner 1 reads aloud for 1 minute---• Listen for “STOP!”• Partner 2 records errors:

Note: Self-corrections do not count as errors.– Mispronunciations– Omitted words– Words out of sequence– Words replaced– Assistance required– Words repeated

What’s Your WCPM?

See p. 162

Hasbrouck and Tindal 2005 Oral Reading Fluency Data

• Study was completed in 2004.• Teachers can use this data to:

-draw conclusions about students’ oral reading fluency and

-make instructional decisions for them.• No clear indication that this study included

English Language Learners.• Most likely reflects the performance of Native

English Speakers.

2005 Oral Reading Fluency Data, Cont’d

• Data can give teachers a resource to use to:- Compare Native English Speakers’ current

oral reading fluency scores to English Language Learners

- Set goals for their students

Telemarketing Research Done by the Pennsylvania Bell Company

• How speech rate affects telephone sales– Developed this test to measure speech

rates of agents.– Ideal speech rate is between 180 and 200

words per minute.– Agents who read the 180 word passage in 1

minute are considered to perform at the best speech rate.

– If they read the passage in less than 1 minute, they are speaking too fast.

What’s the Word?

t _ _

What’s the Word?

t h _

What’s the Word?

t h e

Is Automaticity the Same as

Fluency?

So…..What is Prosody???

So, What is Prosody???

• The MUSIC of Oral Speech• Expression• Changes in – Intonation– Stress patterns– Duration

• Gives Character to the Text– Even though the features are not graphically in

the text

Prosody is…

• Necessary for Reading Comprehension• An Important Element for Fluency Instruction