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- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
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- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Fluency
- About Fluency
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpful Web sites
- Reader’s Theater Books
Books for Children and Young Adults that can be used with Lesson Plans:
Fleischman, P. (1985). I am Phoenix : Poems for Two Voices. New York : Harper & Row.
This book is a collection of poems about birds to be read aloud by two voices. (811.54 Fle)
Fleischman, P. (1988). Joyful Noise : Poems for Two Voices. New York : Harper & Row.
This book is a collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. The poems are designed to be read out loud by two people. (811 Fle)
Hoberman, M.A. (2001). You Read to Me, I'll Read to You : Very Short Stories to Read Together. Boston: Little Brown.
Classic Mother Goose rhymes in color-coded typography let young children read along with an adult. (811.54 Hob).
Miles, B. (1995). Hey! I’m Reading: A How-To-Read Book for Beginners. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
This is a book for both children learning to read and the person who is trying to teach children to read. The first half of the book talks about the styles in which children learn to read. The second half of the book gives stories and poems for beginning readers to read with the help of an adult. (372.4 Mil)
Pappas. T. (1991). Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices. San Carlos, CA: Wide World Publishing.
Poems centered on the subject of math. The poems are designed to be read out loud by two people. (811 Pap)
Thayer, E. L. (1964). Casey at the Bat. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall.
Illustrated version of the well- known baseball poem. (811 T)
Quotes:
Fluency derives from the reader’s ability not just to decode or identify individual words but also to quickly process larger language units.
1 (Shoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko & Hurwitz, 1999, p. 19)
Fluency is the ability to orally and silently read text smoothly and with appropriate phrasing and intonation. We often refer to it as “reading like you talk.”
2 (Duffy, G. A., 2003, p.36)
2 Duffy, G.A. (2003). Explaining Reading: A Resource for teaching concepts, skills, and strategies. New York: Guilford Press.
1 Shoenbach,R.; Greenleaf, C.; Cziko, C.; & Hurwitz, L. (1999). Reading for understanding: A Guide to improving reading in middle and high school classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.