How can an elementary school teacher most effectively produce fluent readers?
2. What is your third answer? (In complete sentence format)
An elementary school teacher can most effectively produce fluent readers by expanding their vocabulary and tracking any to all progress made.
3. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
- R1: By tracking students progress, the teacher could adapt further instruction according to the students needs to excel fluency proficiency. In Essentials for Effective Reading Instruction, the University of Texas Health Science Center found that this way of teaching left no student "inferring what they are supposed to learn" because they knew what was expected of them.
- R2: Expanding a students vocabulary allows them to better comprehend reading content. During mentorship, the students who knew the meaning of words on their weekly spelling words list better understand the accompanying story which used them.
- R3: Teachers that track a students reading progression is able to provide parents/guardians with ways they could help at home. My mentor does weekly fluency reading assessments on short stories and tracks students performance on individual folders. The student is then able to show their parents where they are at and what the goal for the following week is.
4. What source(s) best supports your answer and details?
Essentials for Effective Reading Instruction by Carolyn A. Denton (ART)
Teaching All Students to Read in Elementary School by Joseph Torgesen, Debra Houston, Lila Rissman and Marcia Kosanovich (ART)
In my research, I found there are various ways to track students' reading performances and no one set way to go about it. But by my using both traditional (paper) and modern (tech) documentation methods, of a students progress, the student, parent, and teacher benefit from it.
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