Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Elaine and Tim

2007-07-16 Thread Bonita DeAmicis
I remember once experiencing a book for special education that had a very comprehensive index with a thinking about instruction chart (called something else) that listed out problems and then steps to proper diagnosis of cause and then appropriate classroom modifications for each cause. I am

Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Elaine and Tim

2007-07-12 Thread Heather Wall
Elaine, Thanks for your in-depth post! I actually think there are several things going on with this child. First, I do believe he's been taught that reading is an accuracy game, rather than a meaning game, based on what I know of the school system he attends. His accuracy is actually fairly

Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Elaine and Tim

2007-07-11 Thread elaine garan
Elaine, I have a question about your statement below. I'm tutoring a little boy (LD, ADHD) who reads with fair fluency but absolutely no prosody. It's robot reading with no expression, no stopping for periods, commas, etc. Could that be having an effect on his comprehension (which is suffering