K-12 ESL PLC Meeting November 4, 2013 What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? Chapter 5: Fluency, Continued

Updates from David David Sisk

Check-up on Our Promises We’re at the Beginning of the Second Quarter! How are we doing? – Envelopes, please…. What’s next? – Revise?

Check-up on our Schedules → Why are we doing this??? → Focus on: → ALL FOUR Domains → Growth

Check-up on our Schedules → Why are we doing this??? → Differentiation → Engagement/Interaction → Motivation → Some Examples of Student Progress → Some Examples of Teachers’ Schedules

Check-up on our Schedules What adjustments do we need to make? Are we meeting our students by the Handbook’s Guidelines? – Underserving some? – Overserving some? Are we checking on our Level 3 Students? (Consults/Monitors)

Fluency Saves Lives!!! “Let’s eat, Grandma!” OR “Let’s eat Grandma!”

Fluency Exercise Two Letters: Punctuation Matters!

Fluency Exercise Side by Side Chant: – Rhythm – Repetition – Emphasis – Intonation

So, What is Prosody??? The MUSIC of Oral Speech Expression Changes in – Intonation – Stress patterns – Duration Gives Character to the Text – Even though the features are not graphically in the text

Prosody is… Necessary for Reading Comprehension An Important Element for Fluency Instruction