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BEST PRACTICES PRESENTATION by Valerie C. Burrell

Learn best practices for promoting reading fluency through repeated readings of short passages and poems. Increase students' fluency and engagement in reading while strengthening their comprehension and expression skills.

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BEST PRACTICES PRESENTATION by Valerie C. Burrell

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  1. BEST PRACTICES PRESENTATIONbyValerie C. Burrell TL 655 APRIL 26, 2014 Dr. Cain

  2. Strategy In their landmark book, Classrooms That Work (Addison-Wesley, 1998), Patricia Cunningham and Richard Allington stress the importance of REPEATED READINGS as a way to help students recognize high-frequency words more easily, thereby strengthening their ease of reading. Having students practice reading by rereading short passages aloud is one of the best ways I know of to promote fluency.

  3. Fluency…but why? • One DEFINITION of fluency is the ability to read aloud expressively and with understanding. When fluent readers read aloud, the text flows as if strung together like pearls on a necklace, rather than sounding halting and choppy. • Without that fluency, the world of imagination, humor, and drama contained in the finest books is no more than a tangle of words.

  4. How to…Step 1 • Choose a short poem or passage to begin with, preferably one that fits into your current unit of study, and transpose it onto an overhead transparency. Make a copy of the poem for each student.

  5. How to…Step 2 • Read the poem aloud several times while your students listen and follow along. Take a moment to discuss your reading behaviors such as phrasing (i.e. the ability to read several words together in one breath), rate (the speed at which we read), and intonation (the emphasis we give to particular words or phrases).

  6. How to…Step 3 • Next, ask your students to engage in an "echo reading," in which you read a line and all the students repeat the line back to you.

  7. How to…Step 4 • Following the echo reading, have students read the entire poem together as a "choral read."

  8. What to Expect… • You will find that doing group readings like these can be effective strategies for promoting fluency because all students are actively engaged. As such, they may be less apprehensive about making a mistake because they are part of a community of readers, rather than standing alone.

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