A Vision For the Future: Literacy Learning Resources for September and October

In September and October focus on diagnostic reading assessments and reading fluency

Reading assessment Videos and Lessons

Video: How to find Words Correct Per Minute (WCMP)

Video: Running Record Exemplar

Lesson: Timed Reading Passage

Adaptations and Assistive Technology

-Provide students with the reading in advance    -Come prepared with a range of reading levels    -Print the reading sample in large font

Research

In the article Screening, Diagnosing and Progress Monitoring for Fluency: the Details, Jan Hasbrouk states that “screening, diagnosing, and progress monitoring are essential to making sure that all students become fluent readers and the words-correct per-minute (WCPM) procedure can work for all three (n.p).”  As such, the videos and the lesson that I selected for this section of the table are intended as a how-to- guide for diagnostic fluency assessment practice at the beginning of the year. 

Reading Fluency Lessons and Videos

Lesson: Reader’s Theatre

• PDF Script: “Ms. Nelson is Missing:” For lower intermediate

• PDF Script: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street-For upper intermediate

Video: Reader’s Theatre in action

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Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Choose scripts that have parts at many different reading levels, and arrange groups accordingly.

Students can record a video of themselves themselves using IMovie:

You can also create a podcast using IMovie

Research

Although repeated reading is intended as a one-on-one teacher-led activity, as discussed in The Timed Reading Passage video above,  Students will experience similar benefits from constantly re-reading a Reader’s Theatre script.  Additionally, by having small groups record their performances, students can hear their reading voices, and fix mistakes in the film editing process.

Works Cited:

Hasbrouck, J. (2006). For Students Who Are Not Yet Fluent, Silent Reading Is Not the Best Use 

of Classroom Time. American Educator, Summer 2006, 30(2).

2022. iMovie - Tutorial for Beginners in 11 MINUTES! [ 2021 - UPDATED ]. [image] Available at: 

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlXYrStaIY> [Accessed 21 June 2022].

“Making a Podcast in IMovie.” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Nov. 2017, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLPMIqX-JY. Accessed 21 June 2022. 

Oise.utoronto.ca. 2022. BALANCEDLITERACYDIET :: Balanced Literacy Diet. [online] 

Available at: <https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Home/index.html> [Accessed 30 May 2022].

WETA Public Broadcasting. (2022). Reading rockets: Launching young readers. Reading 

Rockets | Launching Young Readers. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from 

https://www.readingrockets.org/