The Impact of Having Second Grade Students Record a Text Read Out Loud in Relation to Their Fluency Skills

The Impact of Having Second Grade Students Record a Text Read Out Loud in Relation to Their Fluency Skills
Author: Courtney Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN:

A quasi-experimental comparison study took place over the course of six weeks in a general education second grade classroom in an urban Wisconsin school district. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact and results provided after a student was given direct instruction on fluency skills and provided time to record themselves on a 1:1 device and be reflective on their own fluency by listening back to their own reading. Students received reading instructions designed to work on specific fluency strategies. For all six weeks of the study, students were presented with tools and strategies to become for fluent readers. Passages were pulled based on students levels as determined by their Fall benchmark scores, and were fiction and nonfiction texts. Each week, data was collected using progress monitoring measures for words read per minute (WPM), comprehension, and self-reflection charts. Analysis of the final data points suggested that recording and listening back to a self-recorded reading can have positive effects on second grade students’ fluency skills and overall reading engagement and achievement.

The Fluent Reader

The Fluent Reader
Author: Timothy V. Rasinski
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439332088

Introduces oral reading teaching methods for developing word recognition and comprehension in students.

Reading Fluency

Reading Fluency
Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3039432680

Reading fluency has been identified as a key component of proficient reading. Research has consistently demonstrated significant and substantial correlations between reading fluency and overall reading achievement. Despite the great potential for fluency to have a significant outcome on students’ reading achievement, it continues to be not well understood by teachers, school administrators and policy makers. The chapters in this volume examine reading fluency from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapter sketches the history of fluency as a literacy instruction component. Following chapters examine recent studies and approaches to reading fluency, followed by chapters that explore actual fluency instruction models and the impact of fluency instruction. Assessment of reading fluency is critical for monitoring progress and identifying students in need of intervention. Two articles on assessment, one focused on word recognition and the other on prosody, expand our understanding of fluency measurement. Finally, a study from Turkey explores the relationship of various reading competencies, including fluency, in an integrated model of reading. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into reading fluency and fluency instruction and move toward making fluency instruction an even more integral part of all literacy instruction.

The Effects of Two Repeated Reading Treatments on Fluency and Comprehension of Second Grade Students

The Effects of Two Repeated Reading Treatments on Fluency and Comprehension of Second Grade Students
Author: Katrin L. Blamey
Publisher: ProQuest
Total Pages:
Release: 2008
Genre: Oral reading
ISBN: 9780549752219

The researcher compared two methods to improve the oral reading fluency of developing readers. Students in second grade (n = 66) were randomly assigned to one of two fluency treatment conditions or to a control group. Students in the treatments repeatedly read aloud either an unmarked or prosodically-marked text with an adult listener in 20-minute sessions, five days per week for six weeks. For students in the prosodically-marked treatment condition, analysis of covariance revealed significant (p

Fluency in the Classroom

Fluency in the Classroom
Author: Melanie R. Kuhn
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This timely book offers two distinct approaches to oral reading instruction that can easily be incorporated into primary-grade literacy curricula. It enables teachers to go beyond the conventional "round-robin" approach by providing strong instructional support and using challenging texts. Grounded in research and classroom experience, the book explains what works and why in helping students build comprehension along with word recognition and the expressive elements of oral reading. Specific lesson plan ideas, helpful vignettes and examples, and reproducibles make this an indispensable classroom resource. Included are chapters on fluency's role in learning to read, motivation, the home-school connection, fluency assessment, and strategies for struggling readers.

The Development of Fluency and Comprehension Literacy Skills of Second Grade Students by Providing Regular Use of the Fluency Development Lesson

The Development of Fluency and Comprehension Literacy Skills of Second Grade Students by Providing Regular Use of the Fluency Development Lesson
Author: Gail E. Evanchan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2015
Genre: Education, Elementary
ISBN:

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension through the lens of developing readers in an actual classroom setting. In order to provide targeted fluency instruction, the study implemented the Fluency Development Lesson (FDL), a widely recognized and research-based instructional framework for fluency development, to analyze its impact on the reading comprehension of students in a second grade classroom. The study was conducted in a suburban school district located in a Midwestern state. Twenty-two students between seven and nine years old took part in the study by participating in the FDL daily from September through January. The participant sample employed was a purposeful, nonprobability sample. The researcher was the classroom teacher. The data were collected and analyzed using the 3-Minute Reading Assessment: Word Recognition, Fluency and Comprehension to generate the following scores: (a) word recognition accuracy; (b) automaticity in reading fluency; (c) multidimensional fluency skills including expression and volume, phrasing and intonation, smoothness, and pace; and (d) retelling comprehension. The organization of data for this study determined the statistical significance of change and the existence of a correlation between oral reading fluency and comprehension among the second grade students using the analysis of repeated measures and the Pearson's r statistical test. Findings from the data suggested that with regular use of the FDL, significant statistical improvements were seen in retelling comprehension, words read correctly per minute, expression and volume, phrasing and intonation, smoothness, and pace in reading. In this study, the FDL proved to be an effective way of improving students' reading performance in fluency and comprehension skills. In conclusion, using the FDL in the classroom has the potential to provide positive outcomes for student reading fluency and ultimately in overall reading achievement. As educators attempt to find ways to achieve proficiency in reading, they will hopefully take into account the implications of this study and any past and future studies that demonstrate the positive benefits of using the FDL with their students to improve fluency and comprehension skills.

Struggling Readers

Struggling Readers
Author: Maureen McLaughlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Reading
ISBN: 9780872073852

Authors McLaughlin and Rasinski present students, academics, and education professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a comprehensive resource for the teaching of reading to struggling students in a variety of educational settings. The authors have organized the main body of their text in ten chapters devoted to motivation and engagement, the struggling reader, the text, and the context, phonics and decoding, and a wide variety of other related subjects.

A Guide to Documenting Learning

A Guide to Documenting Learning
Author: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-01-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506385583

This new book is a much more sophisticated approach to documentation, showing how it can be used meaningfully throughout all grade levels.

The Impact of Repeated Reading on Reading Fluency and Comprehension with Second Grade Students

The Impact of Repeated Reading on Reading Fluency and Comprehension with Second Grade Students
Author: Jennifer K. Goedken
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2008
Genre: Reading (Elementary)
ISBN:

The non-fluent readers in my second grad classroom had low fluency and comprehension scores, but were not eligible for additional reading assistance through Title 1 or special educational instruction. I implemented the Read Naturally program, a repeated reading program, with these students over a nine week period during the first quarter of the 2008-2009 school year. The Standardized Test for the Assessment of Reading, the Basic Reading Inventory, and fluency probes, which are measures used by the Alburnett Community School District, were given as pretests and posttests for this pre-experimental approach to research, utilizing a one-group pretest-posttest design. Teacher recorded bi-weekly comprehension and fluency assessments, as well as a journal were utilized to monitor the progress of the subjects during the treatment period. Students worked with Read Naturally for 30 minutes, four times per week. Read Naturally is a fluency based program which utilizes repeated reading strategies to improve and develop the skills necessary to become fluent oral readers through the utilization of books, audiotapes, and computer software to develop speed, accuracy, and proper expression in oral reading practices. Results showed significant gains in the areas of fluency and comprehension of students involved in the study. Te results may be due to the implementation of the Read Naturally program.