Reading First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Fluency
Glossary
- Accuracy - accurate decoding of words in text.
(* Source - Assessing Reading Fluency, from the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning) - Automaticity - Automaticity is the fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of reading
practice.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Fluency Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy) - Choral Reading - Choral reading is reading aloud in unison. As part of the activity, the teacher also reads to help set the pace, as well as model proper pronunciation. Books with repreated text and poetry work well for this strategy.
(* Source - Strickland, D.S., Ganske, K., Monroe, J. (2002). Supporting struggling readers and writers. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishing.) - Echo Reading - To echo read, the teacher, or a more capable reader, reads one line of a poem or story; then the child, or less capable reader, reads the same line. As the child's reading improves, the number of lines read at one time can be gradually increased.
(* Source - Fall Fluency for Teachers, from Highlights TeacherNet) - Fluency - The ability to read a text accurately and quickly.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Fluency Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy) - Prosody - Prosody is the appropriate use of phrasing and expression to convey meaning. Fluent readers embed prosodic or melodic features of spoken language – stress, pitch variations, intonation, rate, phrasing, and pausing – in their voices.
(* Source - Assessing Reading Fluency, from the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning - Reader's Theater - A highly extensive and motivational strategy that connects oral reading and drama in the classroom. It does not require costumes, make-up, props, stage sets, or memorization. Only a script is needed, from which students read aloud. With the end goal of "performing" it provides a legitimate reason for students to read and re-read, thus buildinf fluency.
(* Source - Internet Resources for Conducting Readers Theatre, from Reading Online, International Reading Association. Block, C. and Pressley, M. (2002) Comprehension Instruction: Research-based best practices. NY: The Guilford Press.) - Vocabulary - Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In general, vocabulary can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary. Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening. Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Vocabulary Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy.
