Training Students as Fluency Partners

1. Training Students as Fluency Partners The Six-Minute Solution:

2. Introducing Student Fluency Partnerships • Use the training packet to select materials for use in training your students in the Six Minute Solution. • Training Packet Content: • Lesson Plan for Student Fluency Partnership Training • Six Minute Solution Student Training PowerPoint • Split column notes for student use during student fluency partnership training and answer key • Split column notes answer sheet

3. Selecting Training Passages • Select training passages that are one to two years BELOW the lowest student in your class. You are training students in the procedures- not practicing fluency. You want students to focus on how to proceed during fluency practice. • The training packet includes two practice passages-Fish Facts( 2nd grade level) Reptiles : Cold Blooded Animals ( 3rd grade level). Use these passages for training or choose from other assessment passages taken in the Six Minute Solution.

4. Training Slides for PowerPoint Presentation • Use a multimedia projector • Make transparencies of the PowerPoint that accompanies this packet.

5. Lesson Plan : The Six Minute Solution : Fluency Partnership Training Objective : To introduce students to the concept of fluency, train them in the proper use of the Six Minute Solution Fluency Program, model it and have students practice as fluency partners.

6. Lesson Plan : The Six Minute Solution : Fluency Partnership Training Training Vocabulary: fluency script vertical words read correctly per minute

7. Lesson Plan : The Six Minute Solution : Fluency Partnership Training Strategies : Read Aloud Questioning Split column notes Fluency partner practice

8. Lesson Plan :PreparationComplete prior to student training Materials : PowerPoint Presentation Procedure :Read the PowerPoint NOTES PAGES for Introducing Fluency Partnerships

9. Lesson Plan :IntroductionComplete prior to student training Materials : PowerPoint Slide 1 Picture book Wolf Procedure : Prepare students for learning by prompting them to discuss some thought provoking questions.

10. Think, Pair, Share • What is fluency? • Why do you think this program is called the Six Minute Solution?

11. Lesson Plan :ProceduresReading Strategy Materials : Overhead transparency of “Student Fluency Partnership Training”, the student’s split column notes, class set of split column notes PowerPoint presentation Procedure : The teacher defines the first assignment which is to complete split-column notes as information is presented by PowerPoint slides. The students will keep these notes as a reference in their folders. The teacher uses the notes page of the PowerPoint presentation to train, model and provide practice on the use of The Six Minute Solution.

12. Lesson Plan : ReflectionActivity Materials : Split-column notes Procedure : Students will use their split-column notes to independently answer the following question : “Why are we going to practice fluency building this year?” Upon completion of their independent responses, students discuss their ideas. Answer any questions they may have. Revisit the question posed at the beginning of the training : “Why is this program called The Six Minute Solution”?

13. Training Students as Fluency Partners The Six-Minute Solution:

14. Fluency is the ability to read text • accurately, • quickly, and • with expression.

15. What do you need to know to be a good fluency partner? How to… whisper read

16. …underline words I don’t know the first time I get a new passage and raise my hand to ask for help. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick. She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The fever went away after many days. But Helen was not the same. She was now deaf and blind. 0 7 15 22 28 35 44

17. add the number of correct words per minute (cwpm) I read

18. Why are numbers before each line of this passage? Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick. She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The fever went away after many days. But Helen was not the same. She was now deaf and blind. 0 7 15 22 28 35 44

19. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick. She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The fever went away after many days. But Helen was not the same. She was now deaf and blind. 0 7 15 22 28 35 44 Let’s practice how to whisper read as a whole group

20. Let’s practice how to… draw a vertical line after the last word read

21. Draw a vertical line between the parentheses on your split-column notes.

22. 0 7 15 22 28 35 44 Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick. She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The fever went away after many days. But Helen was not the same. She was now deaf and blind. Let’s practice how to add the number of words read correctly per minute (cwpm) TOTAL WORDS READ_____ - Errors _____ = CWPM _____

23. Practice whisper reading, marking the last word you read with a vertical line, and computing cwpm. North and South America are joined by a little piece of land. Before 1900, it was hard to get from the East to the West Coast. Shops had to sail around Cape Horn. It took three months to go from New York to San Diego. People wanted a shorter trip. The French started to dig a canal. It was hard work. Many workers died of yellow fever. The French gave up… 0 7 17 26 35 44 60 69 77 81 TOTAL WORDS READ_____ Errors - _____ = CWPM _____

24. Why do we reread the same passage to build fluency? …to become fluent readers

25. …to complete homework more efficiently

26. …to improve our comprehension

27. …to practice reading nonfiction passages

28. Fluency Partner Behavior Partners are selected according to test data; the computer program matches partners.

29. Fluency Partner Behavior Your fluency partnership is a working relationship for only 6 minutes of the day.

30. Fluency Partner Behavior You MUST work cooperatively and respectfully.

31. Fluency Partner Behavior Fluency partners are polite and helpful. They use a script to make practice go smoothly.

32. Correction Script • The partner who marked errors points to the first error and says the correct word, “This word is _______.” • The marker then says, “What word?” • The reader then repeats the word correctly. • Partners repeat this process until all words are corrected. • Then say, “You read ____ words. I heard ___ errors. Your correct words per minute are ____.

33. What errors do I mark during fluency practice?

34. Oral Reading Fluency Errors Draw a slanted line through these errors. • Mispronunciations/Dropped endings • Substitutions • Hesitations/No attempt • Omissions • Transpositions (out of sequence) • Repeated errors count each time

35. You do not have to write the correct word above the error! The incorrect word is written above to show you what the person read aloud. Partners only need to draw slanted lines through errors.

36. Examples of Errors Mispronunciation He walked down the stairs. Dropped Endings The dogs ran faster and faster. stars dog

37. Substitutions The fluffy animal strutted across the open field. ground

38. Hesitations/No Attempt (Reader waits longer than 3 seconds) I have a purple bear.

39. Omissions   My dog ran home quickly. Transpositions The servant cleaned and cooked.

40. Repeated errors count each time. How many errors are on this page? The reptile slithered down the steps and hid in the basement. There are many reptiles that live around our house. We are not afraid of these reptiles because we know they will keep harmful insects from eating our plants.

41. Repeated errors count each time. How many errors are on this page?   The reptile slithered down the steps and hid in the basement. There are many reptiles that live around our house. We are not afraid of these reptiles because we know they will keep harmful insects from eating our plants. reptell reptells reptells

42. DO NOT COUNT AS ERRORS • Errors made, then self-corrected • Repeated words read correctly • Punctuation errors • Dialect or speech problems • Insertions

43. I’ll read a passage for you to practice marking errors. The passage entitled, “Fish Facts,” can be found in your notes packet. Remember you only draw a slanted line through errors.

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46. How do I graph my cwpm?

47. Partner Fluency Graphing Recording Sheet Student Name_______________________

48. Here is the minute-by-minute breakdown of The Six-Minute Solution:

49. Minute 1 • Partner 1 arranges the chairs while partner 2 picks up the folder. • Both partners enter today’s date and the passage number on their graphs. • Get ready! Partner 1 always reads first while Partner 2 marks errors.

50. Minute 2 • Partner 1 begins to read when the teacher says begin. Partner 1 will read for one minute. • Partner 2 marks errors with a slanted line and the last word with a vertical line.