Hi! Remediating reading fluency can be a very tricky thing. As can be raising a child's motivation.
The quick and dirty is: The research indicates that there is a relationship between comprehension and fluency, but it is a breakdown in comprehension that most likely causes a breakdown in fluency NOT a lack of fluency causing a breakdown in comprehension. However, there are some children who struggle with fluency even when comprehension and word reading is fully in tact. Repeated readings (RR) is a very proven method in the research. Along with instruction, corrective feedback, and goal setting it has been shown to raise WPM, WCPM, and prosody while reducing the number of errors. Most of the time, repeated readings included reading a passage for a minimum of 3 times. *Instruction* in RR may include ideas such as *what does fluency sound like? * or teaching proper prosody based on punctuation and passage content. *Corrective feedback* does not necessarily have to happen at the moment that that students make the error. It can be done at the end of the passage so as not to "break up" the passage. And *goal setting* is typically done by asking the student to beat their previous WCPM record for that passage. The tricky part of RR is transfer to new passages. Once the students become fluent in one passage after a number of RR, this skill does not necessarily transfer to a new passage. Many a times, the process needs to be repeated with every passage the student touches. I hope this was helpful! Best Esti On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Julie G. Martin <jgmar...@redwing.k12.mn.us > wrote: > > Has anyone had experiences using repeated readings to effect fluency on a > struggling student at a 6th or 7th grade level? If you have seen gains in > the child's fluency rate, has there also been an increase in the child's > motivation and willingness to read? > > Thanks, > > Julie > _______________________________________________ > 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
