In a message dated 7/12/2007 7:13:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I took my kids who were in the Stategic and Intensive levels of DIBELS (those who did not meet the minimum number of WPM) and even some of my bilingual students. I recorded the short leveled readers that came with our Scott Foresman reading series at a very slow pace. I would put 4 or 5 students at a round table with the headphones and have them read with the tape twice each day. It took about 20 minutes per group. I did this during our AR time (1 hour). I sat at the table with the kids to make sure they stayed on task while the other kids were reading around the room. This way I was able to meet with all my groups while everyone else was busy. One little boy went from 48 WPM on the first benchmark in August to 112 WPM in May. Several others made great leaps as well. Cheryle, Please don't think I am trying to pick on you or anything, but I had this strange visualization when I read this. I don't know what grade these kids are, but I visualized all these one year olds on treadmills who couldn't walk yet and speeding up the treadmill so many minutes per day until finally in May they were walking ( leaping) at so many steps per minute. Are there kids that are just wired to read later? I hear so many stories of intelligent youngsters who just learned to read later in life. I worry what we are doing to kids. Nancy ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________________________ 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.
