Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

• Teacher instruction in syllabication in order to decode unfamiliar words encountered in text.
• Teacher instruction in identifying known “chunks” of a word in order to read unfamiliar words
encountered in text.
6 -12
• Sustained Silent Reading- Students read independent level text for a sustained period of time.
Follow up activities include reader response logs, book talks, and recording text read in a reading
log.
• Radio Reading- Students rehearse reading a passage with expression, fluency, attention to
punctuation, etc. for oral reading. Similar to Radio Theatre, the task is to bring the story to life for
people who do not have access to the book. Recording this on tape recorder is effective.
• Expert Reading- Students select a given page of text that they rehearse for fluency and accuracy in
oral reading.
• Paired Reading- Students read back and forth in pairs.
• Timed Repeated Reading- Students select a 100-word passage of text and read for both reasonable
speed and accuracy. Students repeat this process in an attempt to increase number of words per
minute read and decrease number of errors made. Attempts are charted to measure growth
© ASPIRE K-12, Albemarle County Public Schools, 2003
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