Lesson 6

Lesson 6: Focus: Reading Rate via Repeated Reading Strategies

Lesson Overview: This lesson will raise the self-awareness of the student’s reading fluency.

Resources or Materials Needed:

Audio recording tools

Headphones

Fluency Tutor or Vocaroo

Writing utensils

Chrome Browser with the Fluency Tutor installed

R-CBM Passages (Appendix C)

Fluency rubric (Appendix F)

Fluency graphs (Appendix G)

Performance Objective:

  1. Given a recording of their own oral reading, students will evaluate their reading accuracy and rate in accordance to the AIMSweb R-CBM protocols with 80% accuracy as compared to the teacher’s evaluation.
  2. Given a recording of their own oral reading, students will evaluate their reading fluency in accordance to the fluency rubric with 80% accuracy as compared to the teacher’s evaluation.

Time: 60 Minutes

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities:

  • Review our working definition of reading fluency and it’s three main traits
  • Taking selected, anonymized quotes from last night’s blog entry, share the more poignant thoughts and discuss.

Step 2: Content Presentation:

  • Instruct students on how to use Fluency Tutor or Vocaroo
  • Instruct students on how the R-CBM passages are scored: rate, accuracy, median scores.
  • Instruct students on how the fluency rubric is used and why it is beneficial.

Step 3: Learner Participation:

  • Using the R-CBM passages students will record their readings using Fluency Tutor or Vocaroo.
  • Students will listen to their recorded passages and score them for accuracy, rate, and prosody.
  • Students will listen to their recorded passages and score them according to the fluency rubric.
  • The teacher will also complete the same scorings as the students.
  • Compare the results from the self-evaluation and the teacher evaluation. Evaluate any discrepancies and create an action plan for improvement.
  • Plot the results of the lowest performing R-CBM passage on a graph.
  • Working with a partner, use repeated reading strategies and paired reading to orally read the passage to each other.
  • The partner will assess the passage for rate and accuracy.
  • Plot each passage for each reading on the fluency graph.

Step 4: Assessment:

  • Record the passage a final time using Fluency Tutor or Vocaroo. Given a recording of their own oral reading, students will evaluate their reading accuracy and rate in accordance to the AIMSweb R-CBM protocols with 80% accuracy as compared to the teacher’s evaluation.
  • Given a recording of their own oral reading, students will evaluate their reading fluency in accordance to the fluency rubric with 80% accuracy as compared to the teacher’s evaluation.

Step 5: Follow-Through Activities:

Students will choose a passage from their self-selected books and record their oral rate for one minute.  They will employ three repeated readings of the passage.  They will then read it a final time and compare their final reading to their first.  They will write a summary reaction to the differences between the readings on their blog as well as a comparison to their original perceptions from previous day.