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Reading fluency takes a different approach at G.F. Middle School
Published on Mon, Dec 6, 2010 by PRESS STAFFRead More Schools & Education
Students in Matt Mecko’s seventh grade reading class at Granite Falls Middle School are practicing reading fluency with the help of PVC pipe.
Mecko learned of the technique at a workshop he attended over the summer. Even at a whisper, the pipes, or fluency phones, amplify sound. The speaker is the only one to hear the sound much like a head phone, but the students are listening to their own voice.
Mecko stated, “This has been a new and tactile experience in reading for many of my students and has given them the opportunity to play with language while increasing their fluency at the same time.”
Reading fluency is critical for development of phrasing words together, when to emphasize words, and to bridge word recognition and comprehension.
Fluent readers are able to focus attention on comprehension - understanding what they are reading - rather than focusing attention on word recognition. The goal for reading fluency is for students to read quickly, accurately, and with expression.
Multiple students can be reading aloud to themselves using the fluency phones without causing a disruptive noise level in the classroom.
One student said it was like oral and silent reading combined together.
Mecko learned of the technique at a workshop he attended over the summer. Even at a whisper, the pipes, or fluency phones, amplify sound. The speaker is the only one to hear the sound much like a head phone, but the students are listening to their own voice.
Mecko stated, “This has been a new and tactile experience in reading for many of my students and has given them the opportunity to play with language while increasing their fluency at the same time.”
Reading fluency is critical for development of phrasing words together, when to emphasize words, and to bridge word recognition and comprehension.
Fluent readers are able to focus attention on comprehension - understanding what they are reading - rather than focusing attention on word recognition. The goal for reading fluency is for students to read quickly, accurately, and with expression.
Multiple students can be reading aloud to themselves using the fluency phones without causing a disruptive noise level in the classroom.
One student said it was like oral and silent reading combined together.
