Fluency and Recognition
What is Fluency?
Reading Automaticity
"Reading automaticity refers to a reader's ability to recognize words without conscious decoding" (Beers, 2015).
How does it happen?
through repeated exposure of a word the student can decode
*If a student can sound out the word, it don't necessarily mean they know the word.
How do we measure fluency?
How do we improve fluency?
Accuracy
Phrasing
Intonation
High- Frequency Words
Sight Words
Students need to hear fluent reading
Echo reading
Choral Reading
Teach Phrasing and Intonation
The natural rise and fall when speaking
What words are stressed?
Reread
"Try that again" vs. "That's wrong"
Common Vocabulary
Word Recognition
Sounding words out
recognizing pre-fixes, suffixes, and root words
Finding smaller words within large words
Knowing sight words
Using context clues
High- Frequency words
Sight Words
Decoding
Phonics
Graphemes
Phonemes
Rime
Onsets
sounding out words
the generalizations of word combinations or letter sounds
Letters of the alphabet
"the smallest unit of sound" (Beers, 224).
Vowels
Consonants
Any non-vowel
a,e,i,o,u
sometimes y and w
Vowel teams
combination of vowels that make a single sound
consonant team
combination of consonants that make a single sound
consonant blends
consonants that are combined to create a blended sound i.e. "ch"
"a vowel and any consonants that follow it in a syllable" (Beers, 226).
Consonant prior to the vowel
What should we do when student's don't have word recognition skills?
Teach High Frequency Words
Teach Common Syllables
Find out what the students know
Teach Rime Patterns
Teach Chunking
divide words into manageable chunks
Teach Rules about the Syllables
Use the Schwa sound i.e. "i" can make the /uh/ sound
Teach prefixes, suffixes, and root words
Use Instructional- Level Texts and focus on what you can with the text
Spelling
Sorting words by patterns
How do we improve?
Spelling word walls
Homonyms
Thematic spelling
Spelling words based on a learning theme
List of School words: we must spell these right
Spelling rules
Spelling Patterns