Fluency Development

Choral reading: When watching this I thought this method would be a great way to get kids to focus on how they are saying the words/inflection. They are able to first listen to the teacher to get an idea of how the book should sound. Eventually when they read it with the group they can hear other students reading along with them. They are able to compare how the teacher reads it, to how other students read it, to how they read it. They are able to figure out in their head which is the best way to read it and which makes it easier to comprehend. One weakness that I thought of is it might be difficult to get the students to speak together. Some might read slower than others or say a word differently than others.

Developing fluency: They used a word web to think about all the words that might be seen along with the center word. I think a strength of this approach is the kids will become more familiar with these words because they have seen them in the word web. There are some students who might not benefit from this type of fluency development. For example, kids who use prior knowledge to guess what the sentence is about to say. If students use their prior knowledge to guess at the sentence before they read it, it will affect their fluency.