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 ...
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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, ...
“First grade is typically the year where students build on and consolidate cognitive skills,” Sara Leman, a literacy specialist at Reading Eggs, an online reading program, wrote in an email. Leman says that, by the end of first grade, a student should be able to: Read with greater fl...
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...
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...
This type of system often prompts teachers to put books in students’ hands that they’re not quite ready for. “The teacher is going to be pushing the student into harder texts in order to meet the goal,” Serravallo says. “You’ve got this kid being pushed through because they can ...
Mental Maths: Finding the ten is a common mental math trick used to develop procedural fluency in students. When students add two numbers, instead of adding them together as they are, have them add them up to 10 and then add the remainder. For example, the process for 6 + 7 is 6 +...