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Great Readers are like

ROCK STARS, they want

their voices heard!

Write a letter to a student that you work with during

your Academic Intervention Time

Include:

• what you notice them doing well

• encouragement

• potential areas of growth

Our Summer Goal

Sight Words

•Most commonly used words

•Automaticity

•100 words account for 50%, of those and 13 words account for about 25% of words in print•Fry & Dolch

Sight Words

1. Get a sight word list (Frye or Dolch)

2. Mark missed words

3. Create a note card for each missed word

4. Kids keep & practice their note cards

5. Review games (Around the World)

6. Weekly Drill

7. 5 minutes (p. 543 or p.546)

Spelling test! Number your notecard

from #1-5

pseudopseudohypoparat

hyroidism

immunohistochemistry

morphogenesis

anteroposterior

humuhumunukunukuapuaa

8

How are you using word parts to spell and comprehend

words?

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

immunohistochemistry

morphogenesis

anteroposterior

9

What is Structural Analysis?Structural analysis is the examination of syllables and morphemes (meaningful units) in words instead of their individual graphemes (letters).

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comedian pedestrian historian Canadian

Now practice helping your student decode these long words using structural analysis …

DISCUSSIONATTENTIVE

PERSISTENTREGULATE

DISTURBANCE

•Prosody: Students read with attention to punctuation, phrasing, natural pauses, and the tone of the reading.

•Automaticity: Students read quickly and accurately

•Reading that is automatic and prosodic.

Fluency

(Great Poster for Your Classroom!)

GOOD READERS read like they talk1. Swiftly and smoothly

2. Pause (at punctuation)

3. Change the sound of their voice to show feelings and expression.

4. Make few errors.

“One must practice beyond perfection to

achieve mastery”

“It takes repeated perfect trials to sustain mastery”

A- ACCURACYAm I saying the words correctly?

P- PACEDo I sound like I’m having a conversation?

E- EXPRESSIONDo I sound like a robot? Or like I’m on stage?

(Great Poster for Your Classroom!)

Fluency Folders

Leveled fluency

passages (2) from

Reading A-ZSight word list (laminated or

in sheet protector)

Reader’s Theatre Script

Poetry Notebooks

•Poem a week

•Echo & Choral Read

•Kids record as morning

work

•Use in a fluency

center & for word study!

Ways to Increase Fluency

PURPOSE

* Designed to show students a fluent model - demonstrating the prosody part of fluency.

* The teacher reads aloud and the students have a copy of the text to follow along.

* Whole group, all grade levels

PROS/CONS

PROCEDURE

READ-ALOUD

Fluency Jigsaw!Directions:1.There are 6 stations2.Read the facts at your

station, become the expert 3.Plan how you will model to

the rest of us the strategy at your station

4.You have five minutes

FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL!!

5:00 – 7:00 pmCommunications

Centeror Resource

Room

Think about the student that you wrote to at the beginning of the session, on your note card, write down 3 things you will do to help prove what’s possible…