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Strategies for Reading Success

K-3 Literacy


Looking at the BIG picture…

Fluency Comprehension

… creating synergy around reading success.


Building Fluency


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


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


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.


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


Prosody

Read Aloud: Yo Yes!

How does the text Yo Yes! support the

development of prosody?



Prosody

The compilation of spoken language features that

includes stress or emphasis, pitch variations,

intonation, reading rate, and pausing.”

Osborn & Lehr, 2003


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.


• 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




“The purpose of reading is understanding.”

therefore

Reading IS Thinking


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.”


• 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


Practical Application

Activity:

I Wonder


The effectiveness of instruction in

comprehension strategies depends critically

on how they are taught, supported, and

practiced.


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.


Practical Application

Activity:

Independent Think Alouds


It is critical that students are continuously

interacting with lots of text across their academic

day if we want create classrooms that grow

readers.


Questions and Answers


Contact Information

Judy Goins

Region 6 Literacy Consultant

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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