Fluency and vocabularyA reliable indicator of fluency, or at least potential fluency, is the number of words you know. You still have to practice speaking, in fact you need to speak a lot in order to speak well. But to do that, to have meaningful conversations, you need a lot of ...
Fluency Theater: Grade 7: You Are What You EatSteckVaughn
The IMSE approach allows teachers to incorporate the five components essential to an effective reading program into their daily lessons: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The approach is based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology and focuses on explicit, direct instructi...
Each year, I have the privilege of giving a presentation to 5th and 6th grade parents at the UCLA Lab School. As a guest ‘testing expert,’ I am asked to speak about the testing component of independent school admission – the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE)....
Foundational Skills (phonics, word recognition, fluency, etc.) Writing Speaking and Listening Standards Language Standards (vocabulary, etc.) Those same broad categories span all K through 12 grades, with the exception of Foundational Skills, which drops in 6th grade. By the end of each grade, ...
When dialogue tags are used in the middle of dialogue it looks like this: “The car lights,”she explained,“aren't bright enough to drive at night.” How it works: A comma is used before the dialogue tag and goes INSIDE quotation marks. ...
The more words students can read by sight, the more fluent they will be. Increased fluency and automaticity leads to greater comprehension, which is the main goal of reading. And when we can read more words by sight, without using so much mental energy to decode, it frees up our mind to...
Claude is an AI chatbot that can generate text content and engage in conversations with users. Similar to ChatGPT and Bard, Claude offers a messaging interface where users can submit prompts or questions and receive relevant, human-like responses.
The reason we can proudly promote our resources as the best thing for students (and teachers) is because we have first hand experience with how effective Maneuvering the Middle curriculum is. When I used our 6th grade TEKS curriculum, the number of students reaching “Meets Grade Level” increa...
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