A enjoys reading very much and reads regularly at home. She scored a 91 on reading fluency and was in the partial retelling stage, so we will move down to a third grade level passage next time.
We will have her read the expository piece “Wool: From Sheep to You”. She needs help with ending sentences at the period, with a pause to make the story easier for the audience to follow. I would like to see if slowing down her reading with an easier passage would help the flow of her reading. This would also help her comprehension.
I'm curious if your results changed because you dropped down to the 3rd grade passage. I think that the results to these assessments can sometimes be skewed by other factors (such as our method of question, our buddy's prior knowledge of the topic, or the noise level in the room). For example, I retested my buddy using the other 4th grade passage and both his speed and retelling drastically improved. I was a little shocked, but just a few simple changes made all the difference.
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Do you think that something like Reader's Theatre might help her with her read-aloud fluency? I was just thinking that if you could find a passage at her reading level, it might help her to focus sentence by sentence on the meaning of the passage. And if she's taking turns, she can't read through those periods!
ReplyDeleteIt would also give you the opportunity to discuss how other forms of punctuation should be read differently (questions and exclamations) and how if you take turns reading the same sentence with different punctuation at the end can change the meaning of the sentence.
Do you think that is something that might be worth exploring?
I wonder if you have more information about your buddy across the dimensions of reading?
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