Lesson Plan: Improving Fluency
February 28th, 2008 by admin
Goals:
- The student will read controlled vocabulary text.
- The student will increase oral reading rate.
- The student will sustain oral reading for one minute.
Materials:
- Controlled vocabulary text slightly below the student’s reading level.
- Extra copies of the text for mark-up
- Pencil
- Reading Rate graph
- Markers
- Stopwatch
Preparation:
- Determine each student’s current reading level.
- Find or develop text passages of 100-200 words to read.
- Take a baseline one minute reading: have the student read aloud for one minute and count the correct words.
Procedure:
- Have the student read aloud from the selected passage for one minute. Mark your copy of the text. You can also circle omissions, use a carrot to indicate insertions, not substitutions or miscues for later analysis.
- Chart the number of correct words read in one minute.
- Have the student reread the same text while you mark up another copy.
- Chart the number of correct words as before.
- Repeat the entire process one more time.
Evaluation:
- Use the chart to compare your student’s performance to others his or her age:
End Grade 1: 30-60 WPM
End Grade 2: 70-100 WPM
End Grade 3: 80-110 WPM
End Grade 4: 100-140 WPM
End Grade 5: 110-150 WPM
End Grade 6: 120-160 WPM
End Grade 7: 130-170 WPM
End Grade 8: 140-180 WPM
Repeat this lesson with new reading material every few days to chart progress.
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