Sure. If a student is struggling in reading comprehension, I try to use an
informal reading inventory approach. I ask the students to read several
passages orally and silently. I tell them to their best reading and pay
attention to the meaning of the passage as I will asking them some questions
about what they have read. I will also have them listen to me read a couple
passages to them and ask them to follow along silently. From these readings I
am able to check their word recognition accuracy (percentage or words read
accurately), word recognition automaticity (reading rate), expressiveness or
prosody, vocabulary (knowledge of worrd meanings from the passages), and
comprehension (oral, silent, and listening; literal, inferential, and critical
levels of comprehension). I will also examine their word recognition errors
to determine the extent to which they are focusing on the various cueing
systems (grapho-phonic, syntactic, semantic). I will also ask them to tell
me how they felt about their readings of the passages. From this data set I
can assess the areas of reading that are strengths and concerns; and from that
I try to design instruction to meet the needs of the students.
Timothy Rasinski
404 White Hall
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
330-672-0649
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FAX 330-672-2025
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professional development DVD: http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mary Helen Chappetto
Sent: Wed 7/11/2007 10:41 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Tim
Tim~
I would love to hear your response to this same dilemma. How DO you get to
the source of the difficulty with comprehension?
However, if you have a student who is having difficulty comprehending, how
do you determine the source of the difficulty?
Every child in our reading clinic at Kent State manifests difficulty in
comprehension. However, the sources of the difficulty varies greatly among
the children. Without knowing the source of the difficulty, instruction to
meet the source of the difficulty is a challenge at best.
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