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Great Readers are like
ROCK STARS, they want
their voices heard!
Write a letter to a student that you work with during
your Academic Intervention Time
Include:
• what you notice them doing well
• encouragement
• potential areas of growth
Our Summer Goal
Sight Words
•Most commonly used words
•Automaticity
•100 words account for 50%, of those and 13 words account for about 25% of words in print•Fry & Dolch
Sight Words
1. Get a sight word list (Frye or Dolch)
2. Mark missed words
3. Create a note card for each missed word
4. Kids keep & practice their note cards
5. Review games (Around the World)
6. Weekly Drill
7. 5 minutes (p. 543 or p.546)
Spelling test! Number your notecard
from #1-5
pseudopseudohypoparat
hyroidism
immunohistochemistry
morphogenesis
anteroposterior
humuhumunukunukuapuaa
8
How are you using word parts to spell and comprehend
words?
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
immunohistochemistry
morphogenesis
anteroposterior
9
What is Structural Analysis?Structural analysis is the examination of syllables and morphemes (meaningful units) in words instead of their individual graphemes (letters).
salinity salination desalinization salary
comedian pedestrian historian Canadian
Now practice helping your student decode these long words using structural analysis …
DISCUSSIONATTENTIVE
PERSISTENTREGULATE
DISTURBANCE
•Prosody: Students read with attention to punctuation, phrasing, natural pauses, and the tone of the reading.
•Automaticity: Students read quickly and accurately
•Reading that is automatic and prosodic.
Fluency
(Great Poster for Your Classroom!)
GOOD READERS read like they talk1. Swiftly and smoothly
2. Pause (at punctuation)
3. Change the sound of their voice to show feelings and expression.
4. Make few errors.
“One must practice beyond perfection to
achieve mastery”
“It takes repeated perfect trials to sustain mastery”
A- ACCURACYAm I saying the words correctly?
P- PACEDo I sound like I’m having a conversation?
E- EXPRESSIONDo I sound like a robot? Or like I’m on stage?
(Great Poster for Your Classroom!)
Fluency Folders
Leveled fluency
passages (2) from
Reading A-ZSight word list (laminated or
in sheet protector)
Reader’s Theatre Script
Poetry Notebooks
•Poem a week
•Echo & Choral Read
•Kids record as morning
work
•Use in a fluency
center & for word study!
Ways to Increase Fluency
PURPOSE
* Designed to show students a fluent model - demonstrating the prosody part of fluency.
* The teacher reads aloud and the students have a copy of the text to follow along.
* Whole group, all grade levels
PROS/CONS
PROCEDURE
READ-ALOUD
Fluency Jigsaw!Directions:1.There are 6 stations2.Read the facts at your
station, become the expert 3.Plan how you will model to
the rest of us the strategy at your station
4.You have five minutes
FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL!!
5:00 – 7:00 pmCommunications
Centeror Resource
Room
Think about the student that you wrote to at the beginning of the session, on your note card, write down 3 things you will do to help prove what’s possible…