We do this also. I think it is really important for the my 2nd
graders and for the kinder reading buddies they read to. For the past
few years I have gotten children in my second grade that remember what
it meant to have older students come and read to them (thye were part
of the group we read to. They really praise the whole process. The
2nd graders are really happy when they see their kinder buddies start
to read and they feel they have helped them learn by reading to them
and working with them on site vocabulary and reading their decodables.
We split the class in half. I take the half that reads to the
kindergarten and the kinder teacher takes the half that works on site
vocabulary and reading decodables. We switch half way through. It is a
great once a week hour activity.
PatK
On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Domina.Natasha wrote:
The post below made me think of the fluency activity I do with my
students--they read to younger students. They practice reading easy
picture books ahead of time so they can read well to their
kindergarten buddies--there's an authentic reason to be practicing
and authentic reason to be reading out loud with expression. If
your student was into that, that could be a time when you timed him
without him knowing.
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Since you are sensing that he is choking under the duress of a timed
reading, have you tried timing him without him knowing it, or having
him
record his reading on his own to get another form of sampling?
Interestingly, I had a student who read meticulously slow, and once he
heard his own reading he stated, "I can do better than that." From
there,
he significantly upped his words per minute. Otherwise, possibly try a
"duration" timing. If you are unfamiliar with that process, it just
means
that you time him with a longer passage for a longer period of time,
then
do the math accordingly; i.e. if it takes him three minutes to read,
divide
his total word rate by three. My understanding is that duration was
designed for kids who are quick out of the gate, or those who speed
up as
they become more confident. I would even consider starting his
timing once
he is a minute or so into the passage.
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