1. How to Increase Reading Fluency Ideas shared from Tim Rasinki’s Workshop entitled, “From Phonics To Fluency To Proficient Reading” Jade Scholl & Marie Collie

2. Why Teach Fluency? Fluency is the bridge between the words and comprehension Fluency requires automacity and prosody

3. Research 100 studies on repeated reading show that when kids have repeated reading opportunities they grow in harder texts. US department of education shows that 4 th grade oral reading fluency is a strong predictor of silent reading comprehension. Evidence suggests that fluency can be taught and leads to overall improvement in reading

4. Fluency Instruction Includes… Accuracy- Word Ladders, Making WordsWord Ladders Model- read alouds Assisted Reading- choral, paired, audio assisted, and caption video text Practice- performance, plays, poetry (provide purpose and voice) Phrasing- meaningful chunks Synergy- putting it all together

5. Poetry Use as Readers Theater http://www.gigglepoetry.com Word Studies/Vocabulary Development -The Crooked Man Nursery Rhyme- stile- a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle. sixpence-a cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom, the half of a shilling, formerly equal to six pennies

6. Poetry Choral Reading- Cummulative/Reverse -Preamble to the Constitution -Let’s try it! (Readers R6- kindergarten & R7-specialist; all others follow grade level taught) Word Family Instruction Sight Word Instruction Lucky Listener Club—home connection

7. Songs Read Aloud Repeated Natural Visual Muscle Memory (mouth, teeth, & tongue) Builds Vocabulary & Comprehension

8. Songs America the Beautiful Words by Katharine Lee Bates, Melody by Samuel Ward O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! America by Rev. Samuel F. Smith My country, 'tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

9. Reader’s Theater Practice with a purpose! http://www.timrasinski.com www.readinglady.com www.readerstheatre.ecsd.net/collection.htm

10. Word Study Idioms- www.idiomconnection.comwww.idiomconnection.com Latin & Greek Roots- rebound, return, replace, redo, replay, rework, record, refuse, reveal -Time to Make Your Own- “duc”—to lead Vocabulary Time Line Word Sorts/Word Ladders Concept Map

11. Romeo and Juliet Told Through Sports Idioms Right off the bat, Romeo knew he was in love with Juliet. The problem was that across the board, the Capulets hated the Montagues. Romeo was behind the eight ball before he even had a chance to get the ball rolling. He knew it would be tough to score points with Juliet’s parents, but he didn’t throw in the towel quite yet. He danced with her at the Capulet’s ball, and their relationship was off and running. When Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, saw them together, he blew the whistle on Romeo. Juliet’s father said that he would call the shots because it was his party, and Romeo was allowed to stay.