C. Read appropriate texts using fluency and comprehension strategies

1. reread (AL COS)
2. adjust speed/reading rate (AL COS)
3. anticipate meaning

Poetry:  A Feast to Form Fluent Readers
Students will use Internet resources to observe poetry performed orally and discuss elements of the performance that lead to fluency and meaning of the written text.

Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
Students reading on their own and just for fun? Sure! This lesson explores how small groups of students decide to meet every other day to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organized—and that they control.
 

A Jury of Her Peers: Full interactive story online for reading.

Reading Instructional Philosophy and Teaching Strategies:  This site has ideas for activities before and after a book is read.

Strategies Help Reluctant Silent Readers Read to Learn:  This site offers strategies to help reluctant readers silently read for meaning.

Teaching Students to Self-Evaluate:  Here a printable checklist for self-evaluation during reading.

The Reading Genie: Developing Reading Fluency:  Direct and indirect approaches to developing reading fluency are reviewed.

Before and After Reading Activities for Guided Reading:  This PDF file offers a chart has ideas for before and after reading activities.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Read one's own writing and/or simple narrative texts and begin to produce phonemes appropriately; D: Read simple narrative and expository texts with some elements of appropriate voice and expression; E: Read narrative and expository texts with appropriate timing, voice, and expression.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes and morphemes students already know in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Recognize and produce some frequently heard synonyms and homographs; E: Understand most frequently heard synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
E: Apply knowledge of roots and affixes to derive meaning from literature.
E: Identify and interpret words with multiple meanings.
 

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