Typically for fluency ASSESSMENT you use a cold, or unfamiliar text. When working on fluency students should be reading at their reading level, not grade level, and it is appropriate to re-read the same passage and improve. We assess at the beginning of the year to get a fluency rate at grade level. After that I have students reading at their reading level. When they become fluent on a passage we move on to a new passage. You will see improvements when reading at reading level and then when students are retested at the end of the year at grade level, hopefully scores will have gone up as well but you have the documentation of improvement throughout the year.
Literacy Specialist Twin Peaks Charter School 820 Main St. Longmont, CO 80501 720-652-8201 x. 7633 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency I am sorry if this sounds negative but I am trying to get some clarification on something. My school is a low-performing school that is required to teach exclusively from the Houghton Mifflin basal. We MUST do a fluency record on each child who is not reading at grade level every week. We are the lowest level third grade leveled reader passage for the fluency record. Most of my students being checked weekly are reading at least a grade below. My first question is: Should these checks be done after the student has been exposed to the passages? They are taken directly from the leveled reader that we read each week, however, I test most of my students prior to us reading the leveled reader. My theory was if they were fluent readers, it shouldn't matter if it is a "cold reading". I got a sticky note today telling me that I need to consult with the literacy coach on fluency strategies since my students fluency is dropping. Seems perfectly natural to me since the texts we are reading are becoming more and more difficult and the vocabulary mose sophiscated. What is the point of this weekly recording? It isn't making them better readers. Is this just a cover your rear type of documentation? Help!!!! Rosie _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
