Building fluency...Doing reader's theater helps and kids like it I was wondering if someone could email me just what the basic procedure is for Read Naturally.
Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School 108 W. New York Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54901 920-424-0177 ext. 132 “May there be promise before you (vision drawing you onward) and hope ever above you (comfort wrapping you in grace).” ~Mary Anne Radmacher ________________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+kay.kuenzl-stenerson=oshkosh.k12.wi...@literacyworkshop.org [mosaic-bounces+kay.kuenzl-stenerson=oshkosh.k12.wi...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 43, Issue 8 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fluency (Yingling) 2. Re: Fluency (suzie herb) 3. Re: Fluency (EDWARD JACKSON) 4. Re: Fluency (EDWARD JACKSON) 5. Re: Fluency ([email protected]) 6. Re: Fluency (Joy Milner) 7. Re: Fluency (Stewart, L) 8. Re: Fluency (Renee) 9. Re: Fluency (Deb Butterfield) 10. Re: Fluency (Sarah Larson) 11. Re: Fluency ([email protected]) 12. Re: Fluency (Beth) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:10:29 -0600 From: "Yingling" <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <e8733151ba7e4a8a942cf478813ee...@lenovo98f1c0ab> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? Thanks, Jenni ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:09:48 -0800 (PST) From: suzie herb <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Reader's theatre and 'just right books' are the key. ________________________________ From: Yingling <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 4:10:29 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? Thanks, Jenni _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:47:41 +0000 From: EDWARD JACKSON <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Don't know that I ever thought I would be suggesting this, but having spent a few days working with a group of struggling 5th grade readers, I would say that Read Naturally is not too bad. I feel quickly compelled to say that this program is being used 20 minutes daily as a part of a larger plan BUT, as far as canned interventions go, I see merits. I will also share concerns voiced to me, or my own concerns. Merits: Focuses on more than speedRequires multiple readings of passagesPassages vary in genre, but seemed to me to be nonfiction heavyProvides practice for written retell, but requires deeper understanding10 or comprehension questions that include written response/higher level thinkingTeacher listens to read for fluencyTeacher ranks expression as part of fluency Concerns: Students using it more than 3x weekly seem to get bored with it (voiced)In order to pass, students can have no more than 3 miscues (Mine)Because of the adult needing to listen, more than one adult must be present in lab even with a group of 11 or so kids (mine)Adults working in lab are not required to have any experience with miscue or running records, so all errors sound the same (mine) Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:10:29 -0600 > Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency > > Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in > upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. > But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Jenni > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:50:29 +0000 From: EDWARD JACKSON <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" As much as I agree with this statement, having worked in a district with a large number of struggling/striving readers, fluency is harder to address with older readers. For some, dysfluency has become a matter of habit and habits can be hard to break. Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:09:48 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency > > Reader's theatre and 'just right books' are the key. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Yingling <[email protected]> > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 4:10:29 AM > Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency > > Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in > upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. > But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Jenni > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:25 +0000 (UTC) From: [email protected] To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <96578587.29481268224645658.javamail.r...@sz0106a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Read Naturally has been successfully used in my classroom by my Special Ed. teaching partner. Maura 5/NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yingling" <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 10:10:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? Thanks, Jenni _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:21:47 -0500 From: Joy Milner <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes My school district has also used Read Naturally, Quick Reads, and Fluency First. On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Yingling wrote: > Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve > fluency in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to > Success and Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/ > 5th grade fluency. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Jenni > > _______________________________________________ > 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. Joy Milner Literacy Coach Double Branch Elementary 813-346-0426 [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:32:56 -0500 From: "Stewart, L" <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <ba1568ff65cf264f81b4db5c1f6ad85f0ac5c47...@bpsmail2007.branford.k12.ct.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I personally have not found anything that seems to work but we use RAZ KIDS and Read Naturally. I believe Read Naturally has scientific research behind it. Leslie R. Stewart/Grade 3 [email protected] 203-481-5386, 203-483-0749 FAX "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) ________________________________________ ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:32 -0800 From: Renee <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed With all due respect, I don't think any "program" is better than just having children read, read, read, books that are easy enough for them that they don't get hung up on vocabulary or other challenging issues. Books that they have already read. It costs nothing. Renee On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yingling wrote: > Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency > in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and > Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade > fluency. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Jenni > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > "Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself." ~ Robert A. Heinlein ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:44:11 -0500 From: "Deb Butterfield" <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII We use the Read Naturally program. The students love it. >>> "Yingling" <[email protected]> 3/9/2010 10:10 PM >>> Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? Thanks, Jenni _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:48:41 -0600 From: Sarah Larson <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We have had some success with a program that we found on-line from the Florida Center for Reading Research...It is a set of center activities for grades 4-5 that we have been using as RtI interventions On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Stewart, L <[email protected]>wrote: > I personally have not found anything that seems to work but we use RAZ KIDS > and Read Naturally. I believe Read Naturally has scientific research behind > it. > > Leslie R. Stewart/Grade 3 > [email protected] > 203-481-5386, 203-483-0749 FAX > > > "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be > counted counts." > (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) > ________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Sarah Larson 5th grade Teacher Monroe Elementary School ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:39:55 +0000 (GMT) From: [email protected] To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm concerned that we seem to be looking for "quick fixes" to help struggling readers. My experiences tell me that a "quick fix" or a "program" doesn't exist. It's about "assessment, diagnosis, and prescription" for struggling readers. Providing background information, building vocabulary, developing comprehension strategies, using graphic organizers, help to give the readers needed information and a means to engage with the text for comprehension. Reading is all about comprehension and developing strategies to assist in comprehension helps readers. Fluency is fine but reading fluency doesn't add much to interacting with text in order to understand it better. By the way, I've just joined MOSIAC and I love reading and LEARNING much from all your emails. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: EDWARD JACKSON Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:25 am Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency To: [email protected] > > Don't know that I ever thought I would be suggesting this, but > having spent a few days working with a group of struggling 5th > grade readers, I would say that Read Naturally is not too bad. > I feel quickly compelled to say that this program is being used > 20 minutes daily as a part of a larger plan BUT, as far as > canned interventions go, I see merits. I will also share > concerns voiced to me, or my own concerns. > Merits: > Focuses on more than speedRequires multiple readings of > passagesPassages vary in genre, but seemed to me to be > nonfiction heavyProvides practice for written retell, but > requires deeper understanding10 or comprehension questions that > include written response/higher level thinkingTeacher listens to > read for fluencyTeacher ranks expression as part of fluency > Concerns: > Students using it more than 3x weekly seem to get bored with it > (voiced)In order to pass, students can have no more than 3 > miscues (Mine)Because of the adult needing to listen, more than > one adult must be present in lab even with a group of 11 or so > kids (mine)Adults working in lab are not required to have any > experience with miscue or running records, so all errors sound > the same (mine) > > > Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist > Broken Bow, NE > > > > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:10:29 -0600 > > Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency > > > > Does anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve > fluency in > > upper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success > and Great Leaps. > > But, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Jenni > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > Mary W. Edwards, PhD Professor School of Education 615 College Avenue Dalton, GA 30720 Phone: 706.272.2590 Fax: 706.272.2495 ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:43 -0500 From: Beth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have to agree that, for most students, wide reading of "just-right" or even slightly easy text will work wonders. BUT, there is always a small group of kids who need a more explicit intervention, whether we like it or not. I have teachers using Read Naturally and the students do seem to benefit from it and enjoy doing it. The teachers see the pay-off, otherwise they wouldn't continue using it, but every one of them emphasizes that it is only for a small group of students, carefully selected, for whom other things (readers theater, choral reading, etc.) has been unsuccessful. My school has not used this program yet, but another school in our district has tried the Rewards Program. This is for 5-6 grade students, I believe. While the person who implemented the program admits it's not overly stimulating for the students, it did make a difference in their fluency. It is a short-term program done daily. I found some information on the program on the FCRR.org web site (Florida Center for Reading Research). Again, nothing beats tons of reading to build fluency, but for the student who is not a fluent reader, chances are reading has become a chore and something he or she avoids. We have to actively work, using the tools we have to work with, to rebuild their confidence and to help them view themselves as productive readers. I also agree, however, that these fluency interventions need to be a part of a comprehensive instructional program, not something done in isolation! Beth Language Arts Resource Specialist, Title 1 Reading -----Original Message----- From: Deb Butterfield <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 9:44 am Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency We use the Read Naturally program. The students love it. >>> "Yingling" <[email protected]> 3/9/2010 10:10 PM >>> oes anyone know of an intervention program proven to improve fluency in pper elementary grades? Right now we have Soar to Success and Great Leaps. ut, these programs aren't helping our 4th/5th grade fluency. Any ideas? hanks, enni ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [email protected] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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