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Who is this instruction for?
Who is this instruction for?
Students that are ready for this type of instruction have considerable sight vocabularies and have mastered nearly all decoding skills. However, they are not proficient at automatically applying these skills and they need practice to develop fluency. To do this, students will need to read high volumes of connected text because this allows them to practice applying their word recognition skills. While fluency is the goal for these students, comprehension is the ultimate reading goal. For this reason, inferential questioning about the text is also including in small group instruction for these students. Students are most likely to need this small group instruction are in second and third grade (Walpole and McKenna, 2009).
What Materials are Needed??
What Materials are Needed??
Materials needed for this instruction are only authentic text matched with grade level Lexile expectations and 2-3 preplanned inferential questions. Go to the Lexile website for more detailed information about grade level bands and for books in each band or to determine the Lexile level of a book (Walpole and McKenna, 2009).
Lexile-to-Grade Correspondence. (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2017, from https://lexile.com/about-lexile/grade-equivalent/grade-equivalent-chart/
How Does this Instruction Look?
How Does this Instruction Look?
Since the primary focus of this type of instruction is fluency, teacher talk is minimum and student oral reading is paramount. Round Robin or popcorn reading does not have a place in these lessons, as it does not maximize oral reading practice.
Upon conclusion of the text teachers should administer an assessment to see if students should remain in the Fluency group or if they are ready to move to the Comprehension group. This assessment should require a student to read grade level text aloud for one-minute and comparing the words correctly read to established benchmarks for the beginning, middle or end of the year (Walpole and McKenna, 2009).
*For more detailed and indepth information regarding small group instruction for K-5 readers visit the open education resource created by Dr. Sharon Walpole and Dr. Michael McKenna, Comprehensive Reading Solutions.
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