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5. How can oral reading be used when working with struggling readers? Describe

two of the strategies shared and how you might use these in the classroom. Oral

reading is an effective tool to help children with reading problems to becomestronger in reading by providing an avenue to monitor their own reading progress

and growth as well as helping teacher to properly assess their struggling readers.

Two reading strategies that I would use to help my struggling readers would be todo read-alouds and paired readings. I selected both of these not only because I

can use them in my 8th grade classrooms, but because I think they are tools that

are important for the rest of the students lives. I think using read alouds tomodel how I, the teacher, read instructions and word problems will help students

to better handle word problems (for they are the most difficult for all students). I

think paired reading will be important when giving task and working on projects,

having two students work together will not only help their reading improve buttheir social development as well.

6. Why is oral reading important for comprehension? Describe two strategies you

might use to develop comprehension. Comprehension is the foundation ofreading, and it can be a complex process. Oral reading is important for

comprehension because you are using a variety of strategies helping students toconnect to the text creating a deeper understanding of what is being read and

developing better comprehension of the text. Two strategies I will use to help

develop comprehension in my math classroom are the following: Rapid Retrieval

of Information (RRI) and Look for signals. I chose these two strategies because Ifeel like they are the most important when it comes to solving word problems.

RRI and looking for signals are both used when students are required to read a

work problem, find the important information, know how the information is beingused, and understand what they are looking for. I really like the idea of teaching

RRI to my students. Helping students learn to find the quality information

through all the mubo-jumbo is a great tool. The two strategies will definitelyhelp in solving math problems as well as to help create better comprehension

skills.

7. What are the key words to remember when using oral reading for sharing and

performance? Describe two of the strategies shared and how you might use these

in the classroom. The two key words to remember sharing and performance are

preparation and audience. Students will need time to prepare their presentationsfor the appropriate audiences. Revised Radio Reading and the Poetry club are

two strategies I plan on using in the classroom. Revised Radio Reading will be

used when I need students to read out of their text, read instructions, or wordproblems. It will allow for students to all practice (silently) and then for one of

them to perform for the class. In one of my observations, I had a teacher who

made their students read a word problem three times, then had a student read itout loud, and then as a group read it sentence by sentence to discover the

important information. Poetry club will have to be altered a bit to be used in my

math classroom. Not only will I have students find and read mathematical

poems to the class but I think I would like to tap into their creativity and have

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them create their own poems, over a mathematical theory, person, or concept of

their choice.

In summary, reading orally is a very important tool to use in all classrooms. Although it

might be more difficult when using numbers, I have to remember that reading numbers(problem sentences) is very similar to English, its just a different language. Helping my

students to better read their text, to develop comprehension strategies, and to no longer

fear word problems will be an every day challenge I am willing to face and teach. Ienjoyed this book because it put into perspective how important it is to not only reading

silently but to read orally. Using round robin is a practice that is used too often and can

become ineffective rather quickly. But thanks to this book I now know of 25 different

oral reading methods. I am going to have to learn to incorporate as much reading intomy math classroom as possible.