1. ESL PLC Meetings October 14 & 15, 2013 What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? Chapter 5: Fluency

2. LEP Headcount ESL Teacher Evaluation: Standard 6 District Disaggregated Data for Reading David Sisk

3. Take a Moment and Share Favorite Strategies from The Academic Language Accelerator

5. What’s Your WCPM? Partner 1 reads aloud for 1 minute--- Listen for “STOP!” Partner 2 records errors: Note: Self-corrections do not count as errors. – Mispronunciations – Omitted words – Words out of sequence – Words replaced – Assistance required – Words repeated

6. What’s Your WCPM? See p. 162

7. Hasbrouck and Tindal 2005 Oral Reading Fluency Data Study was completed in 2004. Teachers can use this data to: -draw conclusions about students’ oral reading fluency and -make instructional decisions for them. No clear indication that this study included English Language Learners. Most likely reflects the performance of Native English Speakers.

8. 2005 Oral Reading Fluency Data, Cont’d Data can give teachers a resource to use to: -Compare Native English Speakers’ current oral reading fluency scores to English Language Learners -Set goals for their students

9. Telemarketing Research Done by the Pennsylvania Bell Company How speech rate affects telephone sales – Developed this test to measure speech rates of agents. – Ideal speech rate is between 180 and 200 words per minute. – Agents who read the 180 word passage in 1 minute are considered to perform at the best speech rate. – If they read the passage in less than 1 minute, they are speaking too fast.

10. What’s the Word? t _ _

11. What’s the Word? t h _

12. What’s the Word? t h e

14. Is Automaticity the Same as Fluency?

17. So….. What is Prosody???

18. 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

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