Repeated Reading
Analysis
Repeated reading is a reading strategy that is used to increase reading speed, enhance comprehension, and it also enables students to become confident and independent readers (Moats & Davidson, 2009). For researchers who have reviewed the effectiveness of repeated readings, they have consistently found the strategy to promote positive outcomes in fluency and comprehension for students who struggle with reading (Mercer, Mercer & Pullen, 2011). Struggling readers may benefit from repeated readings well into the intermediate years (Mercer, Mercer, & Pullen, 2011). According to Mercer, Mercer, and Pullen (2011), struggling readers may continue to participate in the repeated readings strategy until they achieve automaticity on grade level text. Repeated readings involve students reading short passages orally over and over again (Ruetzel & Cooter, 2007). The Six Minute Solution fluency program can be used with our struggling readers. In this program, students are given a graded word list to determine their instructional reading level.
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Once materials are ready, partner 1 reads for one minute. While partner 1 is reading, partner 2 acts as a checker and marks reading errors on his/her copy of the passage. At the end of the minute, partner 2 provides feedback and tells partner 1 how many errors he/she made and tells the student how many words they read correctly in that minute. Partner 1 then records their words correct per minute (WCPM) on their fluency record/graph. The process is then repeated while partner 2 reads for 1 minute, and partner 1 is the checker. Adams and Brown (2011) state that the Six Minute Solution process should only take six minutes of class
“ The students will read the first sentence of each paragraph in the text. Each student is going to skim the text. (Appendix 4) Then they are going to discuss the main idea of the text in pairs. The teacher elicits answers.
Ajay Kumar Mrs.Mary Smith AP Literature 20 September 2017 How to Read Literature Like a Professor In the book “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, the author, Thomas Foster, presented many topics and explained them from his point of view. The author’s persistent use of symbolism helps the reader understand each and every topic he explains throughout the book. By using symbolism, the author, Thomas Foster, was able to bring many topics to life that the general public itself wouldn 't even have considered in the first place. In the chapter titled “It’s Greek to me”, the author mentions the tale of Icarus.
Thomas C. Foster’s novel How to Read Like a Professor teaches readers how to deeply analyze literary works to be able to understand deeper meanings in the work, and to be able to predict what will happen later on in the literary work. The Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire contains many of the aspects Foster goes over in this first ten chapters, which mostly include quests, referencing well-known literature, weather patterns, and the gathering for meals. According to Foster, a journey is never just a journey. It is a quest to discovering some sort of Holy Grail, whether it be an object, an idea, or self-discovery.
Unit 1 Activity 3: Throughout this course, I have been able to develop a wide variety of many different skills, from when I first attended St Louis I had a reasonable understanding of my reading and speaking skills, after reviewing the listening and speaking content and completing the assignments it has helped me improve so much not only in school but in my everyday life since the first day I attended St. Louis improving my skills and helping me to Avoid distractions, listening for the main idea and supporting details, Asking questions, and Visualizing. An example from the course is the Rick Mercer report on the issue of young voters that was shown in class, it was extremely effective in helping me correct my the previous listening skill errors I had made in past assignments, from encouraging the
In Thomas C. Foster's How To Read Literature Like a Professor, he describes the setup of the adventure of the protagonist, dividing it into five parts: Our quester, a place to go, a stated reason to there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. A protagonist must experience all of these things in order to accomplish their goals and learn their lessons. In The Secret Life of Bees, Lily Owens, the main character, must encounter these things in order to unlock the mystery of what really happened to her mother the night she was killed, in addition to learning about the passion of writing and telling stories, the dangers and foolishness of racism, and female power. Our quester, Lily, is a fourteen year old girl with a passion for writing.
Always Running is a memoir written by Luis Rodriguez about caution gang life in East Los Angeles. Fiction needs (or needs not to be) included in the curriculum because it has important information on how it could change someone life in a gang trying to change it all around. The message of the book is that gang and violence lead us to nowhere. Gang’s are all over the world with people mostly dying because of gangs and drugs handed out and arrested for being in a gang to many people aren’t doing the time but they can do the crime. Many people have life issue dealing with gang’s around their neighborhood hearing gunshot everyday but no one saying anything.
Reading Strategy File One #1: Before Reading Strategy Name of Strategy: Anticipation Guide Description of Strategy: Anticipation guides prepare students for a story or a text. Anticipation guides help to motivate students to read a story, build curiosity and help students predict what will happen in a text or a story before beginning to read it. Anticipation guides also help students to self-monitor their own interactions with a text or story.
For the students to show me their understanding of decoding I would have them do a worksheet with one other student. The pair would build words from a list of different endings and write them down on the spaces provided. After finishing their own list of words I would call on each pair to tell me three words they came up with. The last section of The Reading Standard is for first grade students to read with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Behind each movie lies the meaningful aspects and significant features worth noticing. All movies and books can be carefully examined and interpreted. Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor provides a new view on interpreting literature. In the novel, Foster identifies and analyzes common patterns, themes, and motifs found in literature, many of which are also present in Disney’s film, Maleficent. This movie showcases several of his ideas, including quests, flight, geography, and symbolism.
How to Read Literature Like a professor chapter1 In the first chapter of How to Read Literature Like a professor author Thomas C. Foster discusses how almost every story has some type of quest, the title of chapter is “ Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)” he clearly alludes to the fact that the chapter is about the quest aspect of a story and its significance. As the chapter developed Foster began to cover the essentials of a quest and the purpose behind a quest, according to him there are five significant aspects of a quest “(a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, and (e) a real reason to go there. He then expands of each of these things.
1. In chapter 14 authors stress the importance of correctly executed classroom reading assessments and properly utilized results. According to the writers, classroom reading assessments influence learning and teaching strategies, which means reading instruction fluctuates based on the results of previously completed assessments. It is discussed in great details the reasons reading instruction can be productively adjusted after formative assessments and not after summative testing.
While traveling towards the path of seeping knowledge and analyzing critical ideals, we’ve become absent minded towards the components that gave us the ability to read. Since reading is always a part of our everyday routine, we have lost the idea that when it comes to learning how to read, we must start from the basics. From reading a case study, to reading a letter from a loved one, comprehension, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and oral language are the six essential components of reading. Before a child develops the ability to read, they begin to develop comprehension. Comprehension can be defined as the ability to understand.
Justification: (approximately 100-150 words) Based on Nicole’s SDQA scoring sheet, her instructional level was not determined because she did not score two errors on any level. She scored at 5th grade independent level and 6th grade frustration level. Her score sheet reveals that her reading skills strengths include phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge and decoding because she recognized letter patterns in some of the words she misread. This leads me to believe that Nicole has strong phonic analysis skills and a high sight word vocabulary which allows her the confidence to attempt reading multisyllabic words. Nicole’s reading level should begin at the 4th grade level because the last grade-level word list scored as independent was 5th grade.
This lesson plan covered two standards. The first standard was RF.K. (3) Apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. The second standard was RF.K. (4) Read emergent-reader text with purpose and understanding. The lesson plan’s curriculum aligns with standard RF.K. (3) because students were taught phonics using explicit phonics and then assessed using a “Say it, Make it, Write it” worksheet.
My personal definition of a rowdy reader, is a person who is so enthusiastic about reading, that sometimes can not contain their excitement. I am a rowdy reader myself, when I am excited about reading a book, I can not help but talk about it to everyone, (even to those who do non-readers out there who politely wants me to shut up) but of course I don 't, and yes I sometimes squeal when I finally have the book in my hand. Becoming a Rylie Rowdy Reader is pretty much the same, the only difference is that you are excited to read the books that I Rylie Rowe have written. With this subscription to my Triple R Newsletter you will receive, a monthly newsletter that will keep you informed on the books I am currently writing, some of my book recommendations,