Oral Reading for Phonics First
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WHAT IS Oral Reading for Phonics First?
Controlled reading material is utilized for this part of the lesson and gives students practice with the skill(s) they just learned, combined with any previously learned skills. Controlled readers give a true assessment of development in fluency. Students that are working to become more automatic and fluent in their reading significantly benefit from reading controlled text, which is only comprised of sounds and skills that have been explicitly taught.
Activities to Incorporate Oral Reading Passages:
Oral passages are designed specifically for fluency. Students need to practice the skills to automaticity.
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Controlled reading material is utilized for this part of the lesson and gives students practice with the skill(s) they just learned, combined with any previously learned skills. Controlled readers give a true assessment of development in fluency. Students that are working to become more automatic and fluent in their reading significantly benefit from reading controlled text, which is only comprised of sounds and skills that have been explicitly taught.
Activities to Incorporate Oral Reading Passages:
- Small group
- Students can partner up
- Sent home for practice
- Centers
- Silent Reading
- Highlight the newly learned skill
- Scavenger hunt - Have them highlight the skills they are working on that week so they visually stick out to them as they are reading. Red Words (aka non-phonetic words) can be circled in red, and multisyllabic words that are unfamiliar can be syllabicated ahead of time on a piece of paper.
Oral passages are designed specifically for fluency. Students need to practice the skills to automaticity.
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Tips for Oral Reading
- The goal is to work on accuracy.
- Every time there is an error, stop and address it. It is a diagnostic tool to work on fluency and build confidence.
- During repeated reading, work on phrasing, accuracy, rate, punctuation, and expression.
- By picking a smaller chunk, it is closer together and helps them. Select one or two paragraphs to use for repeated reading.
- Send home to read, read, and read the passage.
- Pair-reading
- Boys vs girls
- Use a text students can easily decode
- Tell the student the goal for reading
- Don’t ask comprehension questions
- Go back to earlier stories to build fluency, spelling/punctuation, and build comprehension.