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Fluency Mini Lesson
‘Fluency Mini-Lessons’ written by Newmark Learning is good book on teaching the many features of fluency. This particular book is a helping tool for teachers to help their students to focus on fluency skills to improve their understanding.
On Monday is when I intend to begin my units laying a lot of emphasis on vocabulary words. This will be done in class and every student must get involved by reading the text in turns. Throughout the readings, there will be pauses to reflect on the author’s choice of words with an interest n the vocabulary.
Tuesday will be the day for word patterns looking at the reason as to why the words are used. Then in groups, let them discuss how the new words have been used and rewrite the passage using different words with the similar meaning (Sunshine Online’s Literacy, 2011). This is to make sure the students have understood the meaning and are capable of using the words correctly.
Wednesday we will be looking at reading fluently and self-correction as the students read the wrong vocubulary and corrects themselves. The reading partners will be given smaller American Revolution themed texts to read aloud to each other. In their groups, the partners will assist each other to identify the intricate words and correct each other’s mispronunciations.
Thursday will be on understanding the text by the whole class. The class will read the text together for the last time to have a common overview of the text contents. This session will involve mostly the teacher’s guidance and interpretation.
The last day, which is on Friday, is the most important day as it determines the results of the whole exercise and its effectiveness. This study will revisit all the areas covered throughout the week and the text of study too. A short assessment would be necessary to prove that the students are well equipped.
End of unit assessment: Fluency Mini Lesson? Read and give a short summary the book Fluency Mini Lesson by Newmark Learning.
Overview:
Applying the reading process as a method of comprehension is a factor to consider in the Fluency Mini Lesson. This is characterized by the perfect use of synonyms, antonyms, and multiple words. Understanding is revealed by retelling, summarizing or rephrasing in the main idea. By this, students are able to draw conclusion about a theme and hold their findings with textual evidence. Students demonstrate a certain level of understanding in a variety of different texts. Fluency Mini Lesson has enabled to draw the relationship between characters, character traits, settings and the plot. This mini study aims at helping the students breakdown any subject into simple units that can be easily understood. This helps students to recognize descriptive language and images. The teacher shows the importance of visualizing the text and how this skill enables one to have a better comprehension.
After a thorough revision with the teacher, the students will once again repeat the text to apply the new dishes. After reading, the students are tested on writing and understanding of the new words learned. This is done using cards that have pictures and the words with the meaning written in them (Johnson, 2011). Afterwards, they have an assessment at an individual level of comprehension. The features of this method as put by Newmark Learning include speed and spacing, which is how fast, or slow one’s reading skill is. Pausing involves using punctuation marks to understand and know when to stop or pause while reading. While reading, change of voice is an important skill to have in order to portray the meaning of a passage. The external body look through voice and facial expressions is yet a tool to show the meaning of a passage. The study is dealing with a subject from a raw perspective giving the student a clear visualization of the events therein. Giving simple sentences breaks down the subject to a level where any student can understand easily.
This skill is more of an auditorial skill than a writing skill. It has more to do with one reading aloud to him or herself than writing. To help the students to differentiate between complete sentences and fragmented ones is a helpful method in helping them understand the contents of the text (Teachers .net, 2011). This is easily done by reading the sentence and asking the students whether the sentence is fragmented or not. Drawing a sentence on the board and asking the students to restructure it can be very effective as well. This assures the teacher that the students are improving if they are able to perform such a task. The students also understand well when the massage is brief and precise. Highlighting the key word would be very helpful in capturing the main idea. Sentence building games have students adding to the sentence or changing the words but maintaining the content of the sentence. Giving clue words help students elaborate the events contained in the text. This are the main advantages involved in using these elaborative methods in teaching students with a surety they will understand each step of the text.
References
Johnson, A. (2011). Sentence Fluency Activities Mimnilessons. Retrieved from http://www.teacher2teacherhelp.com/six-trait-writing/sentence-fluency-activities-and-minilessons/
Sunshine Online’s Literacy. (2011). Guided Reading Lesson Plans. Retrieved from http://www.sunshinebooks.com.au/
Teachers net. (2011). Six Traits Writing Assessment. Retrieved from http://cyberspaces.net/6traits/index.html
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