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Building Fluency The Old Fashion Way

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Process for LeadershipProcess for Leadership

Challenge the processChallenge the process search for opportunitiessearch for opportunities change status quochange status quo

Inspiring a shared visionInspiring a shared vision imagine the ideal situationimagine the ideal situation

Enabling others to actEnabling others to act foster cooperationfoster cooperation modeling the waymodeling the way

Encouraging the heart to begin the journeyEncouraging the heart to begin the journey

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State of the Nation

Annual testing -NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

The Real Agenda: The STEMs Science,Technology,Engineering,Mathematics

Social Studies

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Ireland, India, China

High levels of literacyHigh levels of math literacyLow cost of livingLow wagesLanguage

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You Can’t Tutor What Hasn’tBeen TaughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taughtYou can’t tutor what hasn’t been taught

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The goal of the teacher is to create an environment that allows every

reader to move as quickly as possible to grade level, content area reading

without selling-out and just attempting to teach to the test.

What immediate steps will ensure growth… we’re looking for growth!

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The Model Rigorous state Standards that raise expectations

Curriculum and benchmarks aligned to state standards

Quality, on-going professional development for teachers who support and teach reading

Resources to support new instructional strategies and classroom management strategies

Informal classroom diagnostic assessment for math and reading growth

Maximizing Federal Dollars (Title 1) to buy more TIME

STATE TEST ALIGNED to STANDARDS

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Grade Level Meetings-Student specific

Find and use ALL dataDo analysis for strength and weaknessPrioritize needsSet goals (what % of sub groups will grow

04-05)

Brainstorm specific strategiesResults indicatorsAction Plan

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How we can help?

Prepare for early success

Prevent learners from falling behind

Intervene for below level learners

Challenge above grade level learners

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Three Flavors of Assessment Summative Assessment = External Reporting

Scorekeeping Broad data for identifying specific populations Program evaluation and budget indicators

Formative Assessment =Internal Reporting Intervention: Do something differently, immediately (STOP

Spray and Pray!) Progress monitoring over time for individual students Data used to plan “next move” for instruction (lesson

design) Getting a Grade =Comfort the troubled, trouble the

comfortable Public relations A,B,C,D,F: Coin of the realm

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The Challenge

After third grade, the achievement gap with minority, second language, and low-income learners widens substantially Incomplete beginning reading instruction Serious vocabulary deficit Very limited knowledge of text structure Misconceptions about fluency Lack of meaningful early comprehension assessment

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The three most important words for the struggling reader:VOCABULARYVOCABULARYVOCABULARY Words-words-words-words-words-words-words-

words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-words-you get it!!!!

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Registers of Language –R. Payne

Frozen: Language that is always the sameFormal: Standard sentence syntax of work

and school.Consultative: Formal register when used

with conversation. Discourse patterns slightly less formal.

Casual: Language between friends: 400-800 word vocabulary. Non-specific word-choice; non-verbal assists determine meaning. Sentence syntax often incomplete.

Intimate: Language between lovers or twins. The language of sexual harassment.

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Vocabulary Instruction

Concept vocabulary Big idea words: attrition, populism, hypothesis

Context vocabulary Words that have multiple meanings: economy, mine,

elements, book, state, set, case

Vocabulary structure Words with recognizable Latin cognates: migratory,

revolt, spectator

Jim Cummins-Word Harvesting

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What Words to TeachBringing Words to Life—ROBUST Vocabulary InstructionIsabel Beck ,Nancy MacKowen

First tier words Words that you wish students knew, hope they can get, but you don’t have time to teach.

Second tier words High utility words that they need to know in your class, and everyone else’s.

Third tier words Extremely specific words in your content area that require considered, deliberate and in depth instruction.

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Text Structures

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Language Arts

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Language Arts

Whose woods these are I think I know: his house is in the village, though. He will not mind me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near. He gives his harness bells a shake, to ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweep of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely dark and deep,but I have promises to keep…and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.

Pronouns, demonstrative adjectives

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Science

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Science

The Hall-Heroult process is essentially the electrolytic decomposition of purified bauxite. In a cell made of iron, a solution of Al2O3 in molten cryolite, Na3AlF6, conducts the current.

Procedural words, ordinals, first, then, next, etc.

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Social Studies

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Social Studies/History

Although The Confederacy represented the Southern states, its army attacked Gettysburg from the North. The Confederate Generals, having spent a tough winter and spring in the Shenandoah Valley, were desperate for supplies, particularly shoes. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a farming and shoe manufacturing community would hopefully provide the much needed supplies.

Subordinating conjunctions: since, while, because, although, yet, if, as if, however, etc.

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Math

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Math

The architect and contractor were conferring over the blueprints of the new ten story parking garage. It needed to be ten floors and have space for compact cars. Each floor required twenty-two “I” beams, plus one additional beam for each additional floor after the first. Determine the number of “I” beams and show a possible structural configuration.

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Math Research

Embed in real world:make it engaging, generating more questions

Create a language rich classroom Justifying, generalizations, highly verbal, highly visual

students Draw pictures, create mental images, foster

visualization Build from charts, graphs & tables- also, the

misinterpretation of data Don’t leave out measurement

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Let’s Demystify Reading

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Three Muscles:

Early Language Experience Phonemic awareness and concept development Vocabulary, academic language and alphabetic principle

Decoding muscle Three ways of getting meaning off the page

(1)phonics…primary decoding strategy (2)semantics and vocabulary (3) syntax and structure

Fluency muscle Reads a lot of words fast w/ comprehension* Class libraries of high-interest content related articles Every day, every reader reading at a level of success of self-

selected quality literature (fiction or non-fiction)

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News Flash!!!!!

26 letters and 44 sounds 17 reliable letters, (letters that always sound the

same) q,w,,t,p,d,f,h,j,k,l,z,x,v,n,m,b, 4 that are switch hitters... s,g,c&r 3 that are pests ...a,o,u 3 that will make you CRAZY!!!!…i,e,y Double vowels: oa, oo, ee, ea, oi, ou, au Blends: ch, sh, wh, st,str, pl, sl, fl, gl, cl, bl,

kl,cr,scr,

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Vocabulary and Phonics

stench ap-pal-ling de-hu-man-ize intro-spec-tion in-e-qui-ty el-e-ments cru-el-ty re-a-li-ty in-hu-man-i-ty in-hu-man col-lab-o-ra-tion e-con-o-myhur-dle shame re-con-struc-tion em-path-y mine

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Teaching Word Attack (phonics) in Science Con-ser-va-tion bun-dle Ac-cel-er-a-tion state Force base Mass mol-e-cule Grav-i-ta-tion-al force gas-e-ous Ter-min-al vel-o-city Grav-i-ta-tion-al at-trac-tion Mo-men-tum

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anthropologically

An-thro-po-log-i-cal-ly

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australopithecine

Aus-tra-lo-pith-e-cine

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Definition of Comprehension

Comprehension is defined as: “intentional thinking during which meaning is

constructed through interactions between the text and the reader” (Harris & Hodges,1995)

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STRATEGIES

Clarifying Comparing and

contrasting Connecting to prior

experiences Inferencing (including

generalizing and drawing conclusions)

Predicting Questioning the text Recognizing the

author’s purpose Seeing causal

relationships Summarizing visualizing

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…an excerpt

Draped for the formal unveiling May 31 – with only an insouciant topknot and Horton The Elephant’s trunk peeking out – the sculptures frolic on the wide green linking the city library and its four museums that gave wing to the author’s imagination.--

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Testwiseness: An Important Piece of a Comprehensive Intervention Strategy1. On-going, sustained test readiness and

rehearsal, i.e. testwiseness2. Phonics instruction for those who received

“hit-or-miss” decoding during whole language approach; analyze spelling errors

3. Build fluency with an “every day, every child reads at a level of success” approach; assess for oral expression, pace and accuracy

4. Use regular non-fiction writing events to teach science & soc. studies syntax; CRCT high-level comprehension objectives

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Teaching Comprehension Directly Monitor the use of the strategy Offer less coaching as less is called for Ask what strategy they are using & why,

therefore bringing the strategy to the student’s awareness

Give students continued opportunity to observe more modeling

Provide multiple and ongoing opportunities for students to interact w/others using a variety of text

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How do I teach those strategies? Decide which strategy you want to model

and which text to use Tell your students which strategy you are

going to practice while you read Read the passage to the students modeling

the strategy you are using..think aloud During real reading, give your students

multiple chances to practice Continue modeling as the genre or text

structure changes Give students a chance to practice without

your coaching or support

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5 Critical Elements for Rapid Growth

Lesson Design Reading Content alignment: vertical and horizontal teaming—

ELL, Spec.Ed. Assessment driving differentiated instruction

Classroom Management Instruction in terms of minutes Collaboration

Whole class, small group, think-pair-share, indep.

Grade Level Meetings Agendas, increased frequency, evidence driven Student specific with proofs of instruction/learning The Role of the Literacy Coach

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New expectation for ALL learners Interactive learning and discourse for meaning What the brain likes-MULTISENSORY Reading for MATH

Analyzing Data Moving from being data rich to analysis poor SOAP

Subjective, Objective, Analyze-Assess, Plan ELL, Spec. Ed.

5 Critical Elements for Rapid Growth

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Struggling Older Reader

Incomplete beginning reading instructionLacks metacognitive strategiesLimited prior knowledgeLimited word study skills and spellingNo text available at level of successNo adults modeling readingNo history of reading success

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Five Keys to No Child Left Behind

Vertical team study of 4-9 reading curriculum with evidence of student work

Phonemic Awareness &Phonics training for 4th through 9th grade teachers

Vocabulary instruction training geared more toward “word harvest”

Ready availability of compelling leveled text with conditional assessment

Classroom management strategies that provide intensity and focus for below level readers

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Process for LeadershipProcess for Leadership

Challenge the processChallenge the process search for opportunitiessearch for opportunities change status quochange status quo

Inspiring a shared visionInspiring a shared vision imagine the ideal situationimagine the ideal situation

Enabling others to actEnabling others to act foster cooperationfoster cooperation modeling the waymodeling the way

Encouraging the heart to begin the journeyEncouraging the heart to begin the journey

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The Old Syllable-the part of a word controlled by a vowel- In English, there are 6 types

Syllable that is a single letter, single vowel, as in a-bout, i-dent-i-fy, e-lec-tric, a-vail-a-ble

Syllable ending in vowel, as in cru-el-ty, Syllable ending in a consonant, as in al-co-hol, con-su-

mer, ath-leteSyllable ending in -tion-sion, as in in-tro-duc-tion

Syllable ending in -le, as in tin-gle, pic-kle, bi-cy-cle Syllable ending with a vowel, consonant, silent “e”, as in

shame, dime, kite, mon-o-tone, val-en-tine O-le Que-so Cam-e-ro-nes

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Recent Headlines and Quotes

More than half of California 9th Graders Flunk Exit Exam, Education Week

“It will take at least ten years to reach proficiency for all learners”NCLB

“adequate yearly progress” President Bush

Still Leaving Children Behind Krista Kafta, Heritage Foundation

Reading is the New Requisite for Math Education Week

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Grammar IS Syntax

The power the lowly prepositionThe power of the subordinating

conjunction

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Persuasive

State opinionSupport with clear evidence or examplesPersonalizeAppeal to the emotionsGraphic imageryStructured argumentAll to action

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Phoneme Isolation

Children recognize individual sounds in a word.

Teacher: What is the first sound in van?

Children: The first sound in van is /v/.

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Phoneme Identity

Children recognize the same sounds in different words.

Teacher: What sound is the same in fix, fall, and fun?

Children: The first sound, /f/, is the same.

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Phoneme Categorization

Children recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the “odd” sound.

Teacher: Which word doesn’t belong? Bus, bun, rug.

Children: Rug does not belong. It doesn’t begin with /b/.

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Phoneme Blending

Children listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word.

Teacher: What word is /b/ /i/ /g/?

Children: /b/ /i/ /g/ is big.

Teacher: Now let’s write the sounds in big: /b/ /i/ /g/. (Teacher

writes big.) Now we’re going to read the word big.

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Phoneme Segmentation

Children break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or count it.

Teacher: How many sounds are in grab?

Children: /g/ /r/ /a/ /b/. Four sounds.

Teacher: Now let’s write the sounds in grab: /g/ /r/ /a/ /b/.

(Teacher writes grab.) Now we’re going to read the word grab.

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Phoneme Deletion

Children recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from another word.

Teacher: What is smile without the /s/?

Children: Smile without the /s/ is mile.

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Phoneme Addition

Children make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.

Teacher: What word do you have if you add /s/ to the

beginning of park?

Children: Spark.

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Phoneme Substitution

Children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.

Teacher: The word is bug. Change /g/ to /n/. What’s the

new word?

Children: Bun.

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What should be done?

1. Dedicated developmental reading testing preparedness program 5th through 8th

2. Continued professional development for ALL teachers in reading intervention 5-12

3. Initiate on-going professional development in science, social studies, and math reading & writing

4. Integrate a “testwiseness” curriculum for state testing programs with strong emphasis on the content areas

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Reader Response

Review the storySelect a sentence or phrase that lingersWrite down two reasons for selecting that Share your sentence and reasons

w/othersCome to consensusBe prepared to share to group

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What is being done?

Mandatory summer schoolSame thing, but LOUDERExpensive intervention programs with

uneven resultsTeacher training institutions changing

reading requirements

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Five Steps to Two Years’ Growth for One Year of Instruction

Vertical team study of k-8 reading curriculum with evidence of student work

Phonics training for 3rd through 8th grade teachers

Vocabulary instruction training geared more toward “word harvest”

Ready availability of compelling leveled text with conditional assessment

Classroom management strategies that provide intensity and focus for below level readers

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The Goal: Show Improvement Growth triggers funding

Data is the gatekeeper

No improvement: no money

Show enough growth to secure funding

What will be considered growth?

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What you can do in the classroom?

Discipline Use the adult voice first, then the parent voice. To avoid arguments with parents and students,

use the adult voice. Use discipline interventions as an opportunity

for instruction. Use the parent voice to stop behaviors. Use the

parent voice to change behaviors.

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Useful References Adams, M.J. (2000). Beginning to Read: thinking and learning

about print. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Alexander, K. & Entwisle, D. (1996). Schools and children at risk.

In A. Booth & J. Dunn (Eds.). Family-school links: How do they affect educational outcomes? Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Baker, L. (1994). Contexts of emergent literacy: Everyday home experiences of urban pre-kindergarten children. College Park, MD: National Reading Research Center.

Baker, L., D. Scher, and K. Mackler. (1997). Home and family influences on motivations for reading. Educational Psychologist 32(2): 69:82.

Burns, M.S., Griffin, P., & Snow, C.E. (1999). Starting out right: A guide to promoting children’s reading success. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Baker, L., Allen. J., Schockley, B, Pelligrini, A.D., Galda, L. & Stahl, S. (1996). Connecting school and home: Constructing partnerships to foster reading development in L. Baker, P. Afflerbach & D. Reinking (Eds.), Developing engaged readers in home and school communities, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 21-41.

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Burns, M.S., Griffin, P., & Snow, C.E. (1999). Starting out right: A Guide to promoting children’s reading success. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Bus. A.G., M.H. van Ijzendoorn, and A.D. Pellegrini. (1995). Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read: A meta-analysis on intergenerational transmission of literacy. Review of Educational Research: 65(1): 1-21.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement. (2001). Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read. Jessup, MD: Partnership for Reading. Available: www.nifl.gov.

Edwards, P.A. (1995). Empowering low income mothers and fathers to share books with young children. The reading teacher 48: 4888-564.

Epstein, J.L., Coates, L., Salinas, K.C., Sanders, M.G., & Simmons, B.S. (1997). School, family and community partnerships: Your handbook for action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Gallimore, R., & Goldenberg, C. (1993). Activity settings of early literacy: Home and school factors in children’s emergent literacy. In E. Forman, N. Minick, & A. Stone (Eds.), Contexts for learning: Sociocultural dynamics in children’s development (pp. 315-335). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Gentile, L. M., & McMillan, M.M. (1992). Literacy for students at-risk; Developing critical dialogues. Journal of Reading, 35, 636-640.

Hart, Betty & Risley, Todd R. (1995). Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Paul H Brookes Pub Co.

Lyon, G.R. (1998). Overview of reading and literacy initiatives. Testimony Provided to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of child Health and Human Development.

Moats, L. (1999, June). Teaching Reading is Rocket Science. Wahington, DC: American Federation of Teachers. Available online: http://www.aft.org/edissues/rocketscience.htm National Center for Education Statistics (1998). Characteristics of children’s early care and Education programs: Data from, the 1995 National Household Education Surveys (NCES No. 98-128).

National Reading Panel. (1999). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based Assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction: Reports of the subgroups. Washington DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Available: www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubskey.

O’Donnell, M.P., & Wood, M. (1992). Becoming a reader: A developmental instruction. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

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Oldfather, P. & Wigfield, A. (1996). Children’s motivations for literacy learning in Developing. In L. Baker, C. Afflorbach & D. Reinking (Eds.). Developing engaged readers in home and school communities. (pp. 89-113, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Riley, J. (1996). The teaching of reading, London: Paul Chapman. Robbins, C., and L.C. Ehri. (1994). Reading storybooks to

kindergarteners helps them learn new vocabulary words. Journal of Educational Psychology 86(1): 54-64.

Snow, Catherine E., M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin. (1998). Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Washington D.C., National Academy Press.

Sonnenschein, S., Brody, G., & Munsterman, K. (1996). The influence of family beliefs and practices on children’s early reading development, In L. Baker, P. Afflerback & D. Reinking (Eds.). Developing engaged readers in home and school communities. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. PP. 3-20.

U.S. Department of Education. (1999). Start early, finish strong: How to help every child become a reader (America Reads Challenge), Washington, D.C.: author. Available online: http://www.ed.gov.pubs/startearly/

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Take out to the ballgame Take me out to the crowd Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks I don’t care if I ever get back Let me root, root ,root for the home team If they don’t win it’s a shame For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out At the old ball game

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What is fluency

Attaching sounds quickly to lettersBlending and segmenting quicklyKnowing most of the words you are

readingPaying attention

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Your students the practice

Give your students the prac-tice, To read with ease and con-fi-dence And wa----tch ac-c-u-ra-cy and Un-der-sta-a-a-n-ding. Soar by: Mo-del flu-et read-ing Do re-pea-ted read-ing Promote phrased read-ing En-list tu-tors (to help) And try readers’ theater in class

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The Challenge

37% of all 8th graders scored below Basic on the NAEP

After third grade, the achievement gap with minority, second language, and low-income learners widens substantially

The prospect of exit exams yields an increase in drop-outs

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