Lesson 4

 

Lesson 4:  Identifying the Role of Each Reading Fluency Trait – Bringing It All Together

Lesson Overview:  This lesson will determine the function of the three traits of fluency and their contributions to successful reading.

Resources or Materials Needed:

Selected reading passages

Chart paper

Writing utensils

Writing paper

T-chart from the previous day

YouTube videos that students submitted previously

Assessment rubric (see Appendix E)

Performance Objective:

  1. Given a writing prompt, students will identify the three elements of reading fluency and explain their relationship to reading fluency in a written essay with 10 out 12 on a 12-point scale rubric.

Time: 60 Minutes

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities:

  • Review the previous day’s instruction
    • Venn diagram
    • Anchor charts for accuracy, rate and prosody

Step 2: Content Presentation:

  • Read selected passages and review example and non-example effective traits.
  • Share selected YouTube clips which students previously submitted.
  • Discuss how the specific traits of fluency are exemplified.
  • Pose the question: If someone was reading us a story and they were only “good” at one of the three fluency traits, would that make for an enjoyable story telling?
  • Give students two minutes of think time.
  • For five minutes allow students to discuss with their assigned group partners.
  • The assigned spokesperson for each group with report back to the teacher with their thoughts and findings.
  • Scribe the findings onto chart paper.
  • After all groups have presented, distill and merge the shared thoughts onto chart paper for reference.

Step 3: Learner Participation:

  • Read selected passages where the teacher omits each of the necessary traits in turn
  • For each short passage read students will write down their reaction and thoughts on how the passage was read.
  • Using accountable talk (Fisher, Rothenberg, & Frey, 2008) students will discuss the originally posed question and how it could relate to the passage just read.
  • Selected students will share out to the rest of the class
  • Stimulate probing questions to come to a summary idea that all elements are necessary to have true fluency.

Step 4: Assessment:

Given a writing prompt, students will identify the three elements of reading fluency and explain their relationship to reading fluency in a written essay with 10 out 12 on a 12-point scale rubric (See Appendix E).

 

Step 5: Follow-Through Activities:

Students will write a blog entry, to be shared with the teacher only, where they self-evaluate and critique their own reading fluency as they presently perceive it.  What are their reading strengths and areas for improvement?