Reading Department

Kristine Burgess, Amanda Lemieux and Brett Hall

Reading Department
The 6th academic Roughly 43% of Standard and EL program students take a Reading Class in 30 sections Most of these students are reading at the 6th grade level or below

Reading Department
Classes: Reading Fluency Reading Literature Mastery of Meaning

Reading Fluency
Who? Significantly higher (approx. 2 grade levels or more) Word Attack and Word ID scores (WRMT3) than Contextual Reading Scores (GORT-5) Focus: Rate/Pace Accuracy Expression/ Intonation Phrasing
Narrow Focus Frequent Drill Timed Activities Every lesson addresses FLUENCY

Example of Fluency activities

Reader's Theatre Phrasing Lists Sight words Poems/Lyrics Error Analysis Hearing what proper fluency sounds like Repeated Readings Read with teacher Record themselves Read with partner

Student Passage Recording

Student: _________________ Level: __________
ReadThrough # Words Read Correctly # of Errors # of SelfCorrections # of Repeats Time WCPM

1 2 3

Feedback:

Reading Literature
Who? Word Attack and Word ID scores (WRMT-3) and Contextual Reading Scores (GORT-5) are all similar (usually within a 2 grade level range) but fall in the 6th grade range or lower Focus: Decoding Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency
Wider Focus Low and High classes can look very different Fluency is a part of the class, but only a part

Drive-By
Characterization by Mr. Halls Reading Fluency Class 10/01/2013

Lamar/Icebreaker-Joe
Both Have been a hard
time gang-bangers for a while.

was involved with the

killing of Jimmy Was in a small gang that included Gus, them both, and Jimmy Both where in the drug business

Tito
His brother was killed by his own gang The gang killed him because he was stealing money He was stealing money because he

Mina
in kindergarten wants to be a princess loves fries from Big Mollys Diner scared easily does not understand death

Jimmy
his gang killed him by shooting him. he hid drug muny from the gang. and his family. he was a good runner and when he did his brother took his shoes. when he died he woos with his sister and brother. nun of his family now he was in a gang.

Mastery of Meaning
Who? Students who have been identified to have weak vocabulary lexicon (usually by Academic Advisor) Focus: 16 units of vocabulary from Reading is Fame
Narrow Focus Highly Structured Frequent Repetition Use of Technology

Mastery of Meaning Unit Outline

Pre-Test 10 Vocabulary Cards Varied Activities Post-Test Mid-Term Final

Mastery of Meaning Sample Slide

Mastery of Meaning Activities

Fill-in-the-Sentence Fill-in-the-Paragraph Yes/No/Why Thinking About Words Matching Reading Selections Writing