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Describe the fluency and vocabulary strategies you practiced. Were they successful? Who would benefit from these strategy? How can these strategies be implemented within a literacy program? One fluency strategy I utilized on my own classroom this week was Reader’s Theater. have found that not only are they are a great resource for fluency practice, but my students truly enjoy the idea of putting on a play. Over the course of my teaching career, I have worked students who had I&RS plans, or were in BSI for literacy for deficits with oral fluency as a result of either DIBELs testing, or Fountas and PInnell testing. As part of their interventions, we would use Reader’s Theater often in small group and whole group setting. I have found that Reader’s Theater not only helps students practice their own fluency, but it provides them the opportunity to listen to their peers as well. Last year, our school district purchased a Reader’s Theater package. In each unit, there are several different plays that coincided with our previous reading series. Even though we are implementing a new reading program this school year, we have found that the Reader’s Theater materials are still a great asset to help enhance our instruction. Additionally, the Reader’s Theater plays also focus on many other reading strategies such as problem and solution, cause and effect, and theme that come up in many stories from our Journeys reading series which allows for a connection between the two resources. Along with our Reader’s Theater sets, Reading A-Z has great resources for Reader’s Theater. On the website, you are able denote which grade level is best appropriate for your class, or find a level that it appropriate for individual students to fit their needs. The vocabulary strategy that I implemented this week was Fill-In-The-Blank Stories. I have used this reading strategy before in my classroom, and found it can be very versatile and tailored to many subject areas to help practice and review vocabulary terms. Since my students are familiar with this strategy, they found much success with using this strategy to review our weekly reading vocabulary words. Prior to their weekly reading test, we complete a fill in the blank story as a whole class review. I read the story out loud first by saying “blank” in order to help some of my struggling readers identify how the story should flow together. Then, I call on students to come to the Smartboard and move the words to the correct blanks. As we do this, I review each word individually as well. For example, one of our words this week was doze, and we discussed synonyms and antonyms for this particular word to help strengthen their understanding. With our Journeys reading program, students are introduced to their vocabulary words on day one of the weekly cycle. One thing that is different about this reading series than our previous one, is the vocabulary words that go along with the anchor text solely focus on how the words are used in context. On the other hand, each vocabulary card has different mini activities that allow us to review and discuss the vocabulary cards each day as a warm-up. For students that have reading deficits, they require more practice and exposure to vocabulary words. Incorporating this strategy with other strategies can help to broaden their vocabulary. Furthermore, this activity can be utilized with any reading story, or any unit of study allowing teachers to reinforce vocabulary and language skills daily.

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