As in all things, many birds have a nest to feather. Follow the money. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Maureen Morrissey <[email protected]>wrote:
> Lori, > I wish that some of the parents of my students with the same issue had your > wisdom. I cannot convince them that oral fluency does not impact reading > comprehension, and that reading comprehension is the most important part of > reading. All they see is that when their ten-year-olds read aloud, they > read > painstakingly slowly and they stumble over "easy" words. Through a variety > of measures, I have shown that these children are often comprehending texts > above grade level at deeper levels than many of the "good readers," to no > avail. I tell them that instead of having their child read aloud at home, > to > have her/him read silently and then discuss what was read. > > The parents also cannot hear when I say that oral fluency is only meant for > performance, even when I ask them to tell the last time they read aloud in > their lives (other than reading to their kids). > > I too use Readers' Theater and poetry to make fluency authentic, and one > nice resource is Benchmarks Readers' Theater books which have a variety of > topics and genres, and "level" each part so that a variety of children can > participate in the same book. I am not sure why fluency has suddenly > become > so imperative; I know it is one of the facets of reading the NRP came up > with for the ESEA legislation, but I'm not sure why.... > > Maureen > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- "There is nothing so unequal as equal treatment of unequals." Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes _______________________________________________ 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.
