Buy a book on miscue analysis. Most strugglers do not neglect phonics at all, but rely overly or ineffectively on them. Once you buy the book (Get Goodman, Watson and Burke), your expense is time. These children have misidentified reading as a process involved work saying--successfully, unsuccessfully, it doesn't matter--and not meaning making.
Lori > >I need your help! > >First: I need a great miscue test to give that will specifically show me >the exact phonics skills these students are missing. Somewhere in their >first - third grade phonics education, they did not connect. I need your >ideas on helping these students, once I figure out what they are missing. We >do not have DRA at our school. I will be purchasing materials with my >money, so I can't spend hundreds of dollars are testing materials. > >Second: How do I help these fifth grade students catch up? Small group >choral practice? Focusing on everything, plus specifically re-teaching what >they are missing with phonics? > >Third: What types of books could they enjoy reading independently? Third >grade readers? For example: Black Lagoon Chapter books or Flat Stanley >books. Should I get the first grade decodables? > >I have stopped approaching this as a reading comprehension skills overview, >and now believe they need to learn phonics and sight words. There are some >great powerpoints people have made with Fry's Words put into phrases. I >could have the students drill with these. > >Fourth: What else can I do to get them caught up in the phonics department? >We have not been teaching phonics in fifth. I need your help in a great >book to use to fill in the missing pieces. > >What else can I do? I really want to reach these low students before it is >too late for them to connect. > >Thanks for your ideas. > >Francie >5th >Los Angeles >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
