tema 2 elements of reading literacy
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TOPIC 2: ELEMENTS OF READING:
LITERACY
Table of contents
What does a child need in order to learn to read?.............................2
THE BIG FIVE……………………………………………………………..3
Learning to read…………………………………………………………..7
Levels of Phonological Awareness…………………………………….10 • Word level…………………………………………..10
• Rhyme level…………………………………………11
• Syllable level……………………………………….17
• Sound level: phonemic awareness………….…20
Phonological vs Phonemics Awareness……………………………21
• How to build phonemic awareness…………23
- P.isolation
- P.identity
- P.categorization
- P.blending
- P. segmentation
- P.deletion
- P.addition
- P. substation
- P. counting
Phonics…………………………………………………………………….27
Vocabulary Instruction………………………………………………….29
Fluency…………………………………………………………………….30
Comprehension………………………………………………..…………37
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A child must be able to:
ELEMENTS OF READING
• Hear and be able to recognize the sounds that are spoken and determine the
differences between the sounds.
• Recognize the different sizes, shapes, position and form of the 26 letters.
(Letter recognition)
• Have a sense of directionality and hold the book with the cover first and the
opening pages to the right.
• Directionality is also needed to read from left to right and from top to
bottom. (Print awareness)
• Remember the sequence of the sounds and the syllables in the correct order.
Notice how some children will pronounce spaghetti as bisghetti.
• Learn that letters and combinations of letters are all associated with
different sounds in speech.
• Upper and lower case letters (Capital and small)
• cursive writing
• the 2 letters that make certain sounds “pr” for instance
• the two letters that make 1 sound “sh”
• Learn that B and b are the same but P and B are different.
• Derive 'meaning' from the words read.
• Use visual and auditory skills at the same time.
• Remember the many rules of letters, the silent k in knife or the silent e.
• Understand the symbolic nature and meaning of grammar, capital letters,
punctuation (commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks etc. ), spelling.
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THE BIG FIVE
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According to Armbruster, Lehr and Osborn (2001) in their work, Put Reading First:
The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, the elements of reading
are defined as:
1. Phonemic Awareness: the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the
individual sounds – phonemes – in spoken words.
2. Phonics: the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between
phonemes (the sounds of the spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and
Phonemic awareness describes the awareness
skills used to detect, blend, segment and
manipulate individual sounds in words.
Children who have Phonemic Awareness are
likely to learn to read and spell easier than those
who have few or none of this skill
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spellings that represent those sounds in written language). It is the term applied
to instructional practices that help students develop a understanding of the
alphabetic principle.1 Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships
between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
Phonics is the instructional method that focuses on these letter-sound
associations.
Children's reading development depends on their understanding of the
alphabetic principle – the idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds
of spoken language. Learning that there are predictable relationships between
sounds and letters allows children to apply these relationships to both familiar
and unfamiliar words, and to begin to read with fluency.
The goal of phonics instruction is to help children to learn and be able to
use the Alphabetic Principle. The alphabetic principle is the understanding that
there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and
spoken sounds. Reading really is about comprehension, and comprehension of a
text depends not on the recognition of its individual words, but on the
relationships among those words.
1 The alphabetic principle is a broad that enfolds awareness of the sound structure of
the language ( phonological awareness) and knowledge of the shapes and names of
letters ( alphabetic knowledge).
ALPHABETIC
PRINCIPLE
Alphabetic Understanding or
knowledge Words are
composed of letters that
represent sounds.
Phonological Recoding: Translation from
written representation into a sound-based
system to arrive at the meaning of words in
the lexicon (stored vocabulary) in long-term
memory.
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3. Vocabulary : refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In
general, vocabulary can be described as oral vocabulary and reading vocabulary.
Oral vocabulary refers to words we use in speaking or recognize in listening.
Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.
4. Fluency : the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. When fluent
readers read silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to
help them gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and
with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking. Fluency provides
a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.
5. Comprehension : the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do
not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading.
The relationship between phonemes (the sounds of the spoken
language) and graphemes (the letters and spellings that represent
those sounds in written language).
The goal of Phonics is to help children learn and use the
“alphabetic principle” (relationship between written letters and
spoken sounds)
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LEARNING TO READ
The key to the process of learning to read is the ability to identify the
different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written
symbols (graphemes). This is called the “alphabetic principle”. Unlike the Chinese who
use characters to represent whole ideas or the Egyptians who used pictures to represent
words, English is an alphabetic system – letters and letter patterns represent the sounds
of our speech. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words are made up
of letters
However, knowledge of those two facts is not sufficient for developing
good decoding skills. Knowledge of the alphabetic principle refers to an understanding
that the letters in written words represent the phonemes in spoken words.
In order to learn to read children must be aware of phonemes. A
phoneme is the smallest functional unit of sound.
There are 40 to 44 sounds in English , and words made up of these sounds
(phonemes) are represented by the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet.
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Long /u/ sound:
•-ue June -o do
•-ui fruit
•-ew new
•-ue blue
•-ou soup
•-oo moon
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Children must be able to identify these sounds and to manipulate them. The
ability to identify and manipulate sounds of language, the ability to orally recognize
word features (e.g. rhymes, syllables, alliteration), is called Phonological Awareness.
(Smith, Simmons and Kameenui, 1995).
Phonological Awareness is an understanding of the structure of spoken
language. It understands that a language is made up of words, and words consist of
syllables, rhymes, and sounds. Fitzpatrick (1997) summarizes it best by saying that
phonological awareness is “the ability to listen inside a word”.
Phonological Awareness is basically a skill that trains the child's ear .
Phonological awareness is an awareness of the different levels in the sound system of
speech. In order to learn to read or spell words, learners need to be aware that the words
they hear in spoken language are made up of small segments of sound and that these
sounds can be represented in print.
Phonological awareness is the awareness that words can be separated in three ways and
at three levels, by syllables, by onsets and rimes, and by phonemes.
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Levels of Phonological Awareness and how to teach it
I. Word level:
• Recognize how many words are in a sentence.
• Activities to work on word awareness.
– Words are part of sentences
– One potato rhyme
– Compound words (game)
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II. Rhyme level: Rhyming and alliteration
• understand the concept of rhyming. (nursery rhymes,)
• recognize and generate rhyming words. (teach them how to rhyme, word
families)
• repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
A. What is rhyming?
Rhyming is the ability to identify words that have identical final sounds
segments.
Reading begins in a child ears: the more you talk, sing and read to the child, the
bigger his/her speaking vocabulary will become.
Playing rhyming games or reading rhyming poems will get the child’s ears
ready.
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NURSERY RHYMES
Exposure
Hearing, learning and reciting nursery rhymes can help young children toward
becoming proficient readers.
Help children develop an ear for rhyme by:
1. Telling children that the words sound the same at the end;
2. Reading aloud and reciting to children and having the children themselves
recite and sing nursery rhymes and poems.
Selection
•Select those that contain rhyming words. Otherwise they will not promote
phonological awareness.
• Those that have rhyming words in close proximity to one another.
“This little piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
And this little piggy cried, Wee-wee-wee
All the way home”.
(home and none are partial rhymes but they are far away in
the poem).
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In many poems and rhymes, the rhyming pattern in ABAB, so the rhyming words are
not in consecutive lines, but rather in every other line.
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Five little monkeys (with one hand hold up the number of fingers to match the verse)
jumping on the bed (bounce your fingers (monkeys) up and down on your other hand (the bed)
One fell off (hold up one finger)
and bumped his head ( hold head with both hands and rock head back and forth)
Mama called the Doctor and the doctor said (dial the phone with one finger)
No more monkeys jumping on the bed (shake index finger ("no no")
RHYMING GAMES
Body name game
Riddles
Word families
Finish a sentence with a rhyming word
Card games
RIDDLES
I am on your head to help you hear
There are 2 of me. I am your………
•Listen closely and hear me well
I ring and chime: I’m a ………..
•Open me up and take a look
I’m full of stories. I am a ……….
•There are 10 of me, 5 in each row
I’m on your feet, I am a ……..
•I shine outside when you’re having fun
I’m up in the sky, and I’m called the …….
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This is a word which rhymes with cat, It goes on your head because it's a ____.
•I'm useful for journeys when you're going far, I need lots of petrol because I'm a ____.
•You'll find us near ponds or sitting on logs, We jump and we croak because we are
_____.
•This is a word which rhymes with up. You can drink out of me because I'm a ____.
•This is a word which rhymes with bake, I'm nice to eat because I'm a ______.
•This is a word which rhymes with spoon, I shine at night because I'm the______.
•A neverending circle, a bright shiny thing, It's on my fourth finger because it's a _____.
- Give students sentences, they finish them with a rhyming word
A cat wearing a ______________(hat) A mouse that lives in a __________(house)
A moose with a tooth that is _____(loose) A pig that is dancing a ________(jig)
Some kittens wearing ____(mittens) A sheep that is sound ________(asleep)
A bear with long brown ___________(hair)
An ape that is eating a _____________(grape)
A goat that is sailing a _____(boat) A duck that is driving a ___________(truck)
B. Alliteration: It is the repetition of the first letter sound in a phrase.
(tonguetwisters)
Carol and Claire can cook carrots, corn, cabbage, and candy.
– Miss Marble.
– Miss Marble’s muffins.
–Miss Marble makes muffins.
–Miss Marble makes marvellous muffins.
–Miss Marble makes marvellous marmalade muffins – “mm ...”
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Activity: look for words within words
III. Syllable level
Syllable awareness is an awareness that words can be divided into syllables. A
learner who has phonological awareness at the syllable level will know that the word
mat has one syllable, that rabbit has two syllables and that hospital has three syllables.
Identify and work with syllables in spoken words.
Segment and blend words of at least two or three syllables.
• Pen + cil
• Fin + ger
• Dra + gon
• Com+pu+ter
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A. Onsets and rimes: Onset-rime awareness is phonological awareness within the
syllable level
Identify and work with onsets and rimes in spoken syllables or one-syllable words.
Onsets - all the phonemes before the vowel
Rime - the rest of the syllable from the vowel to the end
Sit – s+it
Spoil – sp+oil
B. Syllables Rules
A syllable is the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) that's created when pronouncing
a word. The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) in a word
is equal to the number of syllables the word has.
Counting Syllables
To find the number of syllables in a word, use the following steps:
Count the vowels in the word.
Subtract any silent vowels, (like the silent e at the end of a word, or the second
vowel when two vowels are together in a syllable)
Subtract one vowel from every diphthong (diphthongs only count as one vowel
sound.)
The number of vowels sounds left is the same as the number of syllables.
How many syllables?
–came
–outside
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How To Find Syllables:
Count the number of vowels (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y) in the word.
Subtract any silent vowels (like the silent 'e' at the end of a word).
Subtract 1 vowel from every diphthong.
A diphthong is when two volwels make only 1 sound (oi, oy, ou, ow, au,
aw, oo, ...).
The number you are left with should be the number of vowels in the
word.
How To Divide A Word Into Syllables:
Divide off any compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and root words that have
vowels.
sports/car, house/boat, un/happy, pre/paid, re/write, farm/er, hope/less
Divide between two middle consonants
hap/pens, bas/ket, let/ter, sup/per, din/ner
Never split up consonant digraphs as they really represent only one sound ("th",
"sh", "ph", "th", "ch", and "wh").
Usually divide before a single consonant.
o o/pen, i/tem, e/vil, re/port.
The only exceptions are those times when the first syllable has an obvious short
sound, as in "cab/in".
Divide before an "-le" syllable.
a/ble, fum/ble, rub/ble, mum/ble
The only exceptions are "ckle" words like "tick/le".
Im/polite, hap/pen, tack/le, bas/ket, let/ter, sup/per, stop/ping din/ner, Den/nis,
teacher, a/ble, fum/ble, freck/le , un/happy, mum/ble, thi/stle, tick/le, rub/ble,
farm/er, mum/ble, hope/less,
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•Divide before a consonant before an –le syllable
•Divide off any compound words (prefixes and suffixes)
•Divide between two middle consonants
IV. Sound level: (Phonemic Awareness)
The third level of separating words is by phonemes (or phonemic awareness).
Phonemic awareness is knowing that mat has three phonemes (/m/ /a/ /t/).
In order to learn to read children must be aware of phonemes which are the smallest
functional units of sound that make a difference in the meaning of words.
identify and work with individual phonemes in spoken words.
isolate the beginning or ending sounds in words.
segment and blend sounds in a word with three sounds.
change a sound in a word to make a new word (familiar games and songs).
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual
sounds—phonemes—in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is a subcategory of
Phonological awareness.
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS is an umbrella term that encompasses phonemic
awareness. It is the ability to think about and manipulate the sounds of language
separately from their meaning. Specific features include:
- Understanding that words can rhyme.
- Sentences are made of words.
- Words have syllables.
- Words can begin or end with the same sounds.
- Words are made of individual sounds called phonemes.( phonemic a.)
- They can be put together or taken apart to make new words.
PHONEMIC AWARENESS is the conscious understanding that spoken words are
made of individual and separate sounds called phonemes. It involves the ability to play
with and manipulate these sounds in order to put together and take apart spoken
language. It seems to depend on a student’s ability to focus on the sounds of words, as
opposed to the meanings.
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Children with phonemic awareness will be able to:
change a sound in a word to make a new word (familiar games
and songs).
identify and work with individual phonemes in spoken words.
isolate the beginning or ending sounds in words.
segment and blend sounds in a word with three sounds.
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A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that conveys a distinction in meaning. For
instance, the word “sat” contains three phonemes: /s/ /a//t/; and differs by one
phoneme from each of the spoken words : sad, sap, hat, mat, and sit.
1. Phoneme isolation
Phoneme isolation is the
ability to identify where a sound appears in a
word, or what sound appears in a given
position. Initial, medial or final sound.
ACTIVITY TAMPAREADS. TOUCH
ELBOW, TOUCH HEAD
Children recognize individual sounds in a
word.
Teacher: “What is the first sound in van?”
Children: “The first sound in van is /v/.”
2. Phoneme identity
A technique for building phonemic awareness in which students are
taught to identify the same sound in different words. For example, what sound is the
same in boy, ball, and bath? (Answer: the b sound) WORD TO WORD MATCHING
Teacher: “What sound is the same in fix, fall, and fun?”
Children: “The first sound, /f/, is the same.”
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3. Phoneme categorization
A technique for building phonemic awareness in which students listen
to a series of three or more words and have to identify which word does not belong. For
example, in the list cat, car, mop, can, the odd word out would be mop, which beings
with a different phoneme.
Children recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the “odd“ sound.
Teacher: “Which word doesn’t belong? Bus, bun, rug.”
Children: “Rug does not belong. It doesn’t begin with /b/.”
4. Phoneme blending
Children listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the
phonemes to form a word. Then they write and read the word.
Teacher: “What word is /b/ /i/ /g/?”
Children: “/b/ /i/ /g/ is big.”
Teacher: “Now let’s write the sounds in big: /b/, write b; /i/, write i; /g/, write g.”
Teacher: (Writes big on the board.) “Now we’re going to read the word big.”
What word would we have if we blended these sounds together: /m/ /o/ /p/, /f/ /l/ /a/ /g/,
/a/ /n/ /t/?
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5. Phoneme segmentation
Children break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or
count it. Then they write and read the word.
Teacher: “How many sounds are in grab?”
Children: “/g/ /r/ /a/ /b/. Four sounds.”
Teacher: “Now let’s write the sounds in grab: /g/, write g; /r/, write r; /a/, write a; /b/,
write b.”
Teacher: (Writes grab on the board.) “Now we’re going to read the word grab.”
6. Phoneme deletion
Phoneme Deletion is the ability to identify how a word would sound if one sound were
omitted.
Children recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from another
word.
Teacher: “What is smile without the /s/?”
Children: “Smile without the /s/ is mile.”
What sound do you hear in “fear” that you don’t in “ear”, “train” “ rain”
“train” “ rain”
7. Phoneme addition
A technique for building phonemic awareness in which the students are asked to add
single phonemes to words in order to create new words.
Children make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.
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Teacher: “What word do you have if you add /s/ to the beginning of park?”
Children: “Spark.”
8. Phoneme substitution
Phoneme substitution refers to the ability to replace a phoneme in a word with another
phoneme to form a new word.
Children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.
Teacher: “The word is bug. Change /g/ to /n/. What’s the new word?”
Children: “Bun.”
9. Phoneme counting
The ability to identify how many sounds students can hear in a word.
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PHONICS
Phonics is the relationship between sounds & spellings in printed text. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual
sounds—phonemes—in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is a subcategory of
Phonological awareness.
Phonemic Awareness on the other hand, is the ability to recognize phonemes or
graphemes (sounds) in spoken words and so it is an oral skill and not a written skill
as in phonics .
There are 26 letters in the English Language (Roman alphabet ).
There are approximately 44 sounds in the English Language called
phonemes.
There are approximately 70 common spellings to write down those
sounds.
The singular or group of letters used to represent these sounds, are called graphemes.
A phonogram is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech
sound) or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet. EX:
–ck is a phonogram that says /k/ as in clock.
–s is a phonogram that says /s/ as in sat or /z/ as in has.
–oy is a phonogram that says /oi/ as in boy.
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Good phonics instruction helps students:
1. Become aware of and manipulate the sounds of spoken English (
PHONEMIC AND PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS).
2. Identify the letters of the alphabet by shapes and names (
ALPHABETIC KNOWLEDGE).
3. Relate sounds to spelling (THE ALPHABETIC PRINCIPLE)
.
4. Read each letter or combination of letter in a word to determine the
word’s meaning ( WORD RECOGNITION/DECODING).
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VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION
"Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In general,
vocabulary can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary.
- Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in
listening.
- Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print"
(Armbruster, Lehr & Osborn, 2001 p. 34).
Vocabulary is an important component of children's reading comprehension. As
children sound out words when reading, they compare the sounds to words they know.
The larger a child's vocabulary, the easier it is for him to match words as he reads.
Bromley (2004), in a comprehensive review of research on vocabulary
development, concludes that vocabulary knowledge promotes reading fluency, boosts
reading comprehension, improves academic achievement, and enhances thinking
and communication.
In schools, the study of new words is often done through direct instruction.
Children study a word's parts, its origin and its meaning.
Vocabulary can be taught directly or indirectly:
Students learn vocabulary directly when they are explicitly taught both
individual words and word-learning strategies. Direct vocabulary instruction
aids reading comprehension.
Students learn vocabulary indirectly when they hear and see words used in
many different contexts—for example, through conversations with adults,
through being read to, and through reading extensively on their own.
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Using what children are interested in can be a successful way to teach vocabulary.
Children often provide clues to their interests as you read or work on projects or in your
casual conversations. Picking up on these clues and using them to teach new words
engages children in their learning and makes it more fun.
Explore the meanings of words and build a list of related words.
Build their vocabulary through extended instruction
Repeated exposure to words and their use in a variety of contexts.
FLUENCY
"Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. When fluent readers read
silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to help them
gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with
expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking"
(Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2001, p. 22).
Fluency is important because:
it helps children bridge the gap between word recognition and
comprehension.
It is easier for children to understand what they read, if they don’t have to
work hard to decode the words they are reading.
They can make connections among the ideas in the text and between the text
and their background knowledge.
Fluency is associated with strong skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, and
vocabulary.
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Fluent readers :
read silently,
they recognize words automatically.
they group words quickly to help them understand what they read.
they read aloud effortlessly and with expression.
their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking.
Fluency is associated with strong skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, and
vocabulary.
Fluency develops gradually over considerable time and through substantial
practice.
At the earliest stage of reading development, students’ oral reading is slow and
laboured because students are just learning to “break the code“—to attach
sounds to letters and to blend letter sounds into recognizable words.
Fluency changes, depending on what readers are reading, their familiarity with
the words, and the amount of their practice with reading text.
Two major instructional approaches related to fluency.
repeated and monitored oral reading (commonly called “repeated reading“) .
Students read passages aloud several times and receive guidance and feedback
from the teacher.
independent silent reading. Students are encouraged to read extensively on their
own.
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You can help your students become more fluent readers by:
providing them with models of fluent reading
having students repeatedly read passages as you offer guidance. In addition, you
can help students improve their fluency by combining reading instruction with
opportunities for them to read books that are at their independent level of
reading ability.
Vygotsky argued that we learn when we work collaboratively with an adult or a
more knowledgeable peer. What we can do now with help we can do later
independently.
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A. Model fluent reading, then have students reread the text on their own. By
listening to good models of fluent reading, students learn how a reader’s voice can help
written text make sense.
- Read aloud daily to your students. By reading effortlessly and with expression,
you are modelling for your students how a fluent reader sounds during reading.
- After you model how to read the text, you must have the students reread it. By
doing this, the students are engaging in repeated reading. Usually, having
students read a text four times is sufficient to improve fluency.
Of course, hearing a model of fluent reading is not the only benefit of reading aloud to
children.
Reading to children also increases:
their knowledge of the world
their vocabulary
their familiarity with written language (“book language“)
their interest in reading.
A. Have students repeatedly read passages aloud with guidance.
The best strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your students with many
opportunities to read the same passage orally several times. To do this, you should first
know what to have your students read. Second, you should know how to have your
students read aloud repeatedly.
B. What students should read
Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a high
degree of success. Therefore, your students should practice orally rereading text that is
reasonably easy for them:
text containing mostly words that they know or can decode easily.
the texts should be at the students’ independent reading level.
A text is at students’ independent reading level if they can read it with about 95%
accuracy, or misread only about 1 of every 20 words. If the text is more difficult,
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students will focus so much on word recognition that they will not have an opportunity
to develop fluency.
I. Think aloud
When reading aloud, you can stop from time to time and orally complete sentences like
these:
–So far, I've learned...
–This made me think of...
–That didn't make sense.
–I think ___ will happen next.
–I reread that part because...
–I was confused by...
–I think the most important part was...
–That is interesting because...
–I wonder why...
–I just thought of...
II. Shared-reading
The shared reading model was developed by Holdaway (1979). It builds from the
research that indicates that storybook reading is a critically important factor in young
children's reading development (Wells, 1986).
In the shared reading model there are multiple readings of the books over several days.
Children are actively involved in the reading (Yaden, 1988).
The teacher may pause in the reading and ask for predictions as to what will
happen next.
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PURPOSES OF RE-READING The repeated readings of the same story serve
various purposes.
BENEFITS OF SHARED READING
Rich, authentic, interesting literature can be used, even in the earliest phases of a
reading program.
Each reading of a selection provides opportunities for the teacher to model
reading for the children.
Opportunities for concept and language expansion that would not be possible if
we selected only those books that children could independently.
The first reading is for enjoyment
The second may focus on building and extending comprehension of the selection.
A third might focus attention on the interesting language and vocabulary
A fourth might focus on decoding, using the words in the selection as a starting
point for teaching word identification skills (Yaden, 1989).
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WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD READ?
Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a
high degree of success. Therefore, your students should practice orally rereading text
that is reasonably easy for them:
text containing mostly words that they know or can decode easily.
the texts should be at the students’ independent reading level.
A text is at students’ independent reading level if they can read it with about
95% accuracy, or misread only about 1 of every 20 words. If the text is more difficult,
students will focus so much on word recognition that they will not have an opportunity
to develop fluency.
III. GUIDED READING
Students are divided into small groups (4-6 students). The younger the students
the smaller the groups.
Guided reading lessons are to be about 15-20 minutes in duration.
Select appropriately leveled reading materials
Pre-Reading: The teacher establishes a purpose for reading through prediction making,
vocabulary introduction, or discussing ideas that will provide the readers with the
background knowledge required for the text.
Reading: The teacher observes the students as they read the text softly or silently to
themselves. The teacher provides guidance and coaching to individuals based on her/his
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observations by providing prompts, asking questions, and encouraging attempts at
reading strategy application.
Post Reading: The teacher asks questions to ensure that the text has been
comprehended by the readers and praises their efforts
COMPREHENSION
"Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not
understand what they are reading, they are not really reading" (Armbruster, Lehr, &
Osborn, 2001, p. 48).
The other elements of quality reading instruction—phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary—are skills that contribute to reading comprehension. How well
children use these skills contributes to their understanding of what they are reading.
Some very useful strategies to help children understand what they read are:
Asking "wh" (who, what, when, where and why) questions when reading
making predictions about what the story will be about or what will happen in
the story
looking for main ideas and connecting the story to previous experiences
pre-teaching vocabulary words before reading.
MISTAKES IN READING CAN INCLUDE
1. Mispronunciation - the child mispronounces the word, usually creating a word
that isn’t a word at all.
2. Omission - the child skips the word altogether
3. Insertion - the child adds a word, or words, that aren’t really in the text
4. Substitution - the child replaces a word with a different word. Sometimes the
replacement word makes sense with the sentence, sometimes it doesn’t. This is
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important to note because if the word the child uses makes sense, it shows an
understanding of the context.
5. Self-correction - the child makes a mistake in reading, but quickly corrects the
mistake on his own.
6. Repetition - the child repeats a word, or words, that are in the passage.
7. Parent assistance - the child asks you for help to read a word, or you help her
because she is “stuck.”
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