Unit 19 - Voyager Learning

STORY READING 7 • Prickly Penelope (Fluency)WITH THE TEACHERFLUENCY PASSAGE INSTRUCTIONSThis Story Reading targets fluency as the primary goal of instruction andpractice. Students do repeated readings of this poem to improve accuracy,expression, and rate.Note: The fluency passage is found in Exercise Book 3, Unit 19, Fluency, onpages 63 and 64.PROCEDURES1. Warm-Up: Partner Reading or Whisper ReadingBefore beginning group Story Reading, have students finger track andpartner or whisper read the selection.2. First Reading• Mix group and individual turns, independent of your voice.Have students work toward a group accuracy goal of 0–5 errors.Quietly keep track of errors made by all students in the group.• After reading the story, practice any difficult words.Reread the story if students have not reached the accuracy goal.3. Second Reading, Short Passage Practice: Developing Prosody• Demonstrate reading the first stanza with expression and fluency.Have students finger track as you read.• Have students choral read the first stanza. Encourage reading withexpression and fluency.• Repeat with the second stanza.4. Third Reading, Group Timed Readings: Repeated Reading• Select a page. Encourage each child to work for a personalbest. Have students whisper read for a one-minute TimedReading. Tell students to go back to the top of the page andkeep reading until the minute is up.• Have students put their finger on the last word they read and count thenumber of words read correctly in one minute.• Have students do a second Timed Reading of the same page.• Have students try to beat their last score.• Celebrate improvements.5. Written Assessment (Comprehension and Skill)Tell students they will do a Written Assessment after they read “PricklyPenelope.” (For teacher directions, see pages 109–111.)6. Homework 7: Repeated Reading106