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| It is more than just automatic word recognition; it requires the ability to read with proper phrasing, intonation and stress. |
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| At the beginning, students have considerable difficulty in recognizing words, do so only with considerable time and effort, and are not always accurate. |
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| At this stage, students are able to recognize words accurately, but doing so requires a good deal of attention, effort, and time. |
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| Students are able to recognize words accurately and instantaneously, and doing so does not require much attention, effort, or time. |
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| Simultaneous repeated reading |
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| The teacher or other competent reader and the student repeatedly read the passage together. |
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| The student reads after the teacher, repeating what the teacher read. |
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| Tape-Assisted Repeated Reading |
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| Tape short books that students repeatedly listened to over a period of a week while also repeatedly reading them and comparing their reading to the tape. |
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| More capable readers pair up with less capable peers and take turns reading to each other, with the stronger partner reading each passage first and the less strong reader following. |
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| The teacher chooses a selection that will lend itself particularly well to oral reading—perhaps a humorous poem from Jack Prelutsky’s It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles— and explains the importance of reading the passage smoothly, with expression, at a good rate, and accurately. Next he reads a passage aloud as a model and then has students read it aloud in unison several times. |
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| Refers to the well-rehearsed reading of scripts, with feeling and expression, in front of an audience (usually the class), but without the memorizing of lines, costumes, prompts, scenery, make-up, and other time-consuming and sometimes expensive features of a full-blown play performance |
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| The students are motivated to practice the passage by assuming the role of professional announcers preparing to read the passage to a national audience, and it is fun to add in an announcer’s desk and a microphone. |
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| Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction |
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| Fluency-oriented reading instruction (FORI) is a whole-class program designed to build oral reading fluency. |
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