literacy strategies building a bridge from fluency to comprehension
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Literacy StrategiesBuilding a Bridge from Fluency to Comprehension
True or False?
• There’s more to fluency than just rate & accuracy.
•A student can be “fluent” and still struggle with comprehension.
Fluency is the ability to…• read accurately and quickly
• Recognize words automatically
• Group words quickly to make meaning
• Read aloud effortlessly and with expression
Level 1 – word by word
Level 2 – 2 word phrases
Level 3 – 3 or 4 word phrase groups
Level 4 – larger, meaningful phrase groups
Fluency can be our bridge if we go beyond rate and accuracy. Fluency gets us to the text. Prosody helps us understand the text.
3 Components of Fluency
• Automaticity (accuracy & rate) – gets you through the text
• Prosody (expression) – carries the meaning of the text & allows you to understand the text
• Thought (fluidity of thought) – allows us to glean concepts from text, pull it together, and apply it
Turn and Talk – How do each of these components help with comprehension?
Just My ThoughtsStrategy
Just My Thoughts
• Read the article excerpt
• Without discussing, write a thought you have about what you read on your group’s chart.
• Move to a new group. Read others’ thoughts, and add your thought about one of their thoughts.
Turn and Talk – How could you use this strategy with your students?
Read AloudStrategy
Yo! Yes? By Chris Raschka
Turn and Talk – What are other ways you could use this text to model prosody?
What other mentor texts have you used to model prosody?
Silly SentencesStrategy
Silly Sentences
Turn and Talk – How do each of these components help with comprehension?
• Models the power & meaning of punctuation
• Provide sentence with no punctuation
• Groups rewrite the sentence 3 times, adding punctuation differently each time to give each sentence a different meaning, due to prosody.
They went in the old house
Punctuation Matters!
Reader’s Theater & Choral Reading
Strategy
Choral Reading
• Models fluent reading for struggling readers
• Gives all readers practice and a chance to read fluently
• Strong support for memory of sounds in words
• Students practice prosody with the stress points and push & pull of rhythmic language in poetry
Turn and Talk – What did you notice about the different interpretations of the poem?
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