Literature Circle Chapter 5 (Technology Enhancer)

Fluency means reading and writing ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   . (Introduction)

• effortlessly
• efficiently
• decent
• with help
• I have no clue

Let's look back at this sentence from the text: "They do a cloze procedure by filling in the missing words on sentence strips..." (Introduction). What is the meaning of cloze?

• together in a small space

• an activity where students replace words that have been deleted from a text

• I honestly have no idea. That word is wacky.

• some kind of weird food

Reading fluency involves these three components: ​ ​ (a)   ,​ (b)   ​,​ and ​ (c)   . (Reading Fluency)

• automaticity
• speed
• prosody
• reading
• writing
• speaking
• language
• English
• learning
• teaching

Match the Word-Identificaion Strategies to their definition! (Reading Fluency, Figure 5-3)

• Phonic Analysis

• Students use their knowledge of root words and affixes to read or write an unfamiliar word.

• Syllabic Analysis

• Students break a multisyllabic word into syllables and then apply their knowledge of phonics to decode the word, syllable by syllable.

• Decoding by Analogy

• Students apply their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, phonics, rules, and spelling patterns to read or write a word.

• Morphemic Analysis

• Students use their knowledge of phonograms to deduce the pronunciation or spelling of an unfamiliar word.

What are the unique problems that left-handed writers face? (Writing Fluency, Writing Speed)

Develop a quick, mock anchor chart to represent the different tones of voice that writers learn to use when writing: to entertain, persuade, or inform (Writing Fluency, Writer's Voice). Be as creative as you like!

Teachers assess writing fluency as they observe students' writing and examine their compositions. They consider what 4 questions? (Assessing Reading and Writing Fluency, Assessing Writing Fluency)

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Harmey and her colleagues developed and tested a four-point rubric to assess early writing. Match each description to its respective score for the rubric. (Assessing Reading and Writing Fluency, Assessing Writing Fluency)

NOTE: the actual scale is ranked from 0-3. The game would not let me change the numbers, so just order them from lowest to highest while keeping this in mind.

• Writing was generally slow, but for known words or letters, pace picked up.

• Writing was mostly fast and fluent but faltered over formation of some letters or words.

• Transcription was fast.

• Writing was slow and labored. Required high support to form letters or words.