In a message dated 2/10/2007 8:21:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree with Lori. Also there are many other strategies for building fluency, such as choral reading, and echo reading. I think the idea behind checking their fluency is to make sure you are hearing them read every week. Have you had specific fluency training? I know there are folks at DPI who are interested in seeing our students improve their fluency, but not to the exclusion of anything else. Our SCOS requires a balanced approach, and in NC the SCOS is the law. We can lose our jobs, our license, and face criminal charges if we don't follow it. (Although you don't hear of that happening very often.) Are you in a Reading First School, Rosie? It sounds like many of the mandates you are encountering may be coming from that. Joy, We are not a Reading First school. The entire county is supposed to be following the Houghton Mifflin series. The county has adopted a curriculum guide that tells you what story to teach and what week to teach it! I have not had any training in teaching fluency. We are also required to teach a 90 minute reading block with just 30 minutes of whole group time, and 60 minutes of rotations. During rotation time they come to me for small group instruction, they go one station per day and they go to what we call the thinking lab. Unfortunately thinking lab and stations are independent work and they must produce a product while there. My grade level does integrate other skills that aren't in the HM series, although techincally we aren't supposed to be doing that. During small group instruction we read the leveled reader, work on vocabulary and read short passages that have to do with a content are such as Social Studies or Science. One of my concerns is that we are heavily into Acclerated Reader. So, why would I as a student want to spend time re-reading stories I have already tested on , when I can't earn points for them again? 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.
