Rationale: To
learn
to become voluntary readers students must be encouraged to read
material
on their own.Children will become
voluntary readers by the amount of time children spend each day on
reading
the book of their choice on their own time.This
procedure has positive effects on growth in comprehension, vocabulary,
and reading fluency.
Materials: various
literature books, individual copies of the text being read, (for you to
follow the material being read) and a stopwatch.
Procedures:
1. Introduce the
lesson
by reviewing the effects that daily book readings have on reading
achievement.
2. Ask students to pick
a
story they would like to read out of the literature book ? as they look
for a story write the student’s name and the date of the test on the
text
copies for marking.
3. “Now let’s begin
reading”!Push
the button on the stopwatch when the child says begins to read.
4. As soon as the child
finishes
reading the book, push the button on the stopwatch and record the time
taken (in seconds) by the child’s name.
5. For assessment, I
will
assess the student’s comprehension of the book using the retelling
strategy
? to encourage students to retell the story asthough
they were telling it to someone who had never read it before.
Reference: Wilson,
Paul.(1992).Among
Nonreaders:Voluntary reading, reading
achievement, and the development of reading habits.In
C. Temple and P. Collins (Eds.), Stories and readers:New
Perspectives on literature in the elementary classroom (pp. 157-169).Norwood,
MA:Christopher Gordon.
Eldredge, Lloyd J.(1995).Teaching
Decoding in Holistic Classrooms.Englewood
Cliffs, NJ:Merrill.
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