K-12 ESL PLC MeetingNovember 4, 2013
What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
Chapter 5: Fluency, Continued
Updates from David
David Sisk
Check-up on Our Promises
• We’re at the Beginning of the Second Quarter!
• How are we doing?– Envelopes, please….
• What’s next?– Revise?
Check-up on our Schedules
→ Why are we doing this???
→ Focus on:
→ ALL FOUR Domains
→ Growth
Check-up on our Schedules
→ Why are we doing this???
→ Differentiation → Engagement/Interaction → Motivation
→ Some Examples of Student Progress→ Some Examples of Teachers’ Schedules
Check-up on our Schedules
• What adjustments do we need to make?
• Are we meeting our students by the Handbook’s Guidelines?– Underserving some?– Overserving some?
• Are we checking on our Level 3 Students? (Consults/Monitors)
Fluency Saves Lives!!!
• “Let’s eat, Grandma!”
OR
• “Let’s eat Grandma!”
Fluency Exercise
Two Letters:Punctuation
Matters!
Fluency Exercise
• Side by Side Chant:
– Rhythm – Repetition– Emphasis– Intonation
So, What is Prosody???
• The MUSIC of Oral Speech• Expression• Changes in – Intonation– Stress patterns– Duration
• Gives Character to the Text– Even though the features are not graphically in
the text
Prosody is…
• Necessary for Reading Comprehension• An Important Element for Fluency Instruction