Fluency

Assess with running record and sight word

recognition
Ways to develop fluency
Cued phrasing (appropriate pausing taught)
Reading Theatre
Model fluent reading
Guided and Oral repeated readings
Silent Reading
Echo- Chorus reading
Spelling as a strategy to teach fluency
Build high frequency words
Spanish: knowledge of syllables: read by syllable

Comprehension

Assessments: ELDRA, Observational

assessments & IRI, Celdt, DIBELS, SpanishLAS
Focus on meaning cueing system
DRA
Teach Vocabulary
Interactive Read Aloud
Structure: Oral Cloze
Directed Reading/Thinking Activity
Guided Reading
Shared Reading- Predicting
ABC Model
Creative Reading Process

Model by reading aloud (emotions and expression) Blooms Taxonomy

Graphic Organizers (flow map, double bubble
Tape recordings of favorite books
map etc.)
Making nonfiction books readily available
Story Grammar Organizer
Language experience
Ask for predictions & confirm

Spelling
Assess: Spelling Inventory, Spelling test to figure
spelling stage

Guided oral retelling

Creative Reading Process, Schema Theory,
Shared Reading and Writing

Teaching Cognates, Chunking

Open/Closed Sorts, Spelling Patterns, Functional
knowledge of alphabetic system
Word Study, Word Wall, Word Hunt, Word Wheel
Construyendo palabras
Word Sorts/picture sort/ open sort
Making words
Word tracing (Fernauld method)
Taking a word to fluency
Make and break a word
McCraken Spelling
Flip Card, Cut up Words, Scrabble Word Search

Assessments: Anticipation Guide, Written

observation
Concept of definition map, Semantic Web
Brainstorm Word splashes
Wide Reading, Text Talk, Songs, Rhymes
Word Sorts, Word Wall, Word Study
Taking a word to fluency
Shared Reading, Text Illustration, Games
Octopus story strategies
Build Schema w/in context
RIVET-word consciousness

Vocabulary

Phonemic Awareness (oral only)

Assessments: Hallie Yopp

Article,DIBELS,Syllable counting,Elkonin
Boxes, Alphabet Recognition sounds only
Songs- common sound (Vowel/consonant.
Rhymes, Syllable Splitting, Onset + Rime
Read Aloud, OWL BOOK
Picture /Object sort
Phoneme blending + segmenting
Phoneme isolation, deletion +substitution
Clapping Words Games
Break it in Half Game
Shared Reading- focus on specific skills
Tongue Twisters

Phonics
Assess: Running Records, Phonics Survey,
Alphabet Recognition
Word Sorts, Word Families, Word Detectors
Letter to sound correspondence
Shared Reading (5 day)
Bottom uppers or Top downers approaches
Rhyming Words, Onset + rimes
Dividing Words into Syllables (beg,middle,
end)
Palabra Generator (Brazilian, tomato)
Elkonin Boxes, Picture Sort
Cloze Reading
using Visual Cueing system
phoneme addition & deletion with letters
Clapping out words in Sentence
Magnet Doodle
Interative Writing using word wall
Alphabetic Principle