Brief description of the presentation: The presentation will be an echo from my blog post here. Examples of Materials That Can Be Adapted For Therapy a collection of resources by Judith Maginnis Kuster. The following is one section of Judith Kuster's Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences internet is FULL of materials that can be adapted to speechlanguage therapy. Components of Effective Fluency Instruction Fluency is the ability to read accurately, quickly, expressively, with good phrasing, AND with good comprehension. Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate it with what the reader already knows. Fundamental skills required in efficient reading comprehension are knowing meaning of words, ability to understand meaning of a word from discourse context, ability to follow organization of passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, ability to. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard Speed Reading For Dummies [Richard Sutz, Peter Weverka on Amazon. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Learn to: Increase your reading speed and comprehension Use speed techniques for any type of reading material Improve your silent reading skills Recall more of what you read The fun and easy waysupsup to become a more efficient A System for Assessing Reading Accommodations! Whats Included: Protocolguides you in collecting data to compare independent reading, reading with a human reader and reading with a text reader. Reading Samplesprovides narrative and expository reading passages and vocabulary questions for each grade level, grades 1st through 10th. Quizzescontains comprehension quizzes for each. If anyone has anymore information on any other audio readings, or want to 'grade' the ones listed above, please send the information in and I will add them to the list. Teacher Resource Guide: Part One: Part Two Five Components of Reading Crosswalk Frequently Asked Questions It is recommended that you download the Crosswalk onto your computer and open it. This product is a free sample from my monthly Poems for Building Reading Fluency and Writing Stamina for K1. Monthly sets or the discounted bundle are linked below. In 1980 I became convinced that speed reading could become a universal skill for all children if it were just made available in the right way to the general public. At that time the only speed reading courses available were those which cost hundreds of dollars per student. Also, these same courses were directed at adults (mostly college students and business owners). An IDEA: When my son was in preschool and in kindergarten, we bought a notebook, and took 5 words daily from the Dolch and Fry lists (Fry lists below), and we wrote 5 sentences each day together. Reid Lyon is the Executive Vice President for Research and Evaluation at Best Associates and Whitney International University. Timothy Shanahan is the Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Literacy. Charlotte Parker is the Principal of Burbank Elementary in the Houston Independent School District. Delia Pompa is the moderator of this webcast. The timehonored sight words approach is still useful. You will need to teach the common, high frequency words (many of which are phonetically irregular) as sight words, because these must be rapidly, automatically recognized. Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise. Look up fluent, voluble, or loquacious in Wiktionary, the free. Click for Full 1000 Fry Word Set Discount Bundle Kids just love this activity. Little do they know that it is a reading intervention designed to improve high frequency word fluency. Break up the midwinter slump and bring a Fluency Boot Camp into your classroom! No you will not be shipping your students off (sorry), nor will students have to march around the room (your choice), but I can guarantee that your students' brains will be sweating as they participate in the classroom fluency camp you create. All Lessons in the English Download Package You get 148 PDF files with 873 pages of English lessons. You can print out any of the lessons, take them with you and study them anywhere. You can also have study group sessions with friends and family. 1 Herausgeber Leibniz Zentrum fr Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID) Verzeichnis Testverfahren Ku Two books written for teachers appeared in early 2013. They are called What Should Every ESL Teacher Know (available free in electronic form), and What Should Every EFL Teacher Know (for sale). For details go to Compass Media. The number of free Midfrequency readers on this web site continues to increase (see below). XtraMath is a free program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Go to top of page (index) Educational Diagnostic tests Reading: Test of Early Reading Ability (TERA) Measures of the reading ability of young children age 3 years, 6 months 8 years, 6 months (does not test the child's readiness for reading). This study showed that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension..