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