YAY
for Expression!
Rationale: Fluency
is being able to read and reread decodable words in
connected text. To be fluent you have to
be able to read accurate and automatic.
To be a successful reader which means fluent, there are five
components:
reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoothly, reading
silently and
being able to read voluntarily. This lesson is going to focus on
being
able to read with expression.
Materials: Blackboard,
chalk, sentences
written by the teacher, Five Minutes’ Peace, 1 copy of Lee
and the
Team for each student, Assessment checklist for each student
Sample
Sentences: Do you
like to go to the playground?
Stop kicking me!
Can you pass me that
book please?
I
can’t wait to go to the beach!
Leave me alone!
Do
you want to go and play with me?
Sample
Checklist:
Procedure:
1. The teacher will begin by sharing about expressive reading with the students. To let people we are reading too know what is happening in a story we have to change our voice. When we change our voice we either make it lower or higher to show our emotion. I will also share why we read with expression. First, I will tell the students to listen to two sentences. When the children think they hear the one with expression, they will raise their hand. I will then ask them if they think they would like listening to a story if it was read like the sentence without expression? The class will then realize that expression makes a story interesting and enjoyable to listen too.
2. Now I will read Five Minutes’ Peace. I will tell the children that if you hear me
using good expression and emotion I want you to hold both thumbs up, if
you
think I am reading with no expression and very plain then hold both
thumbs
down. The teacher will read a few sentences without expression
(“I am
going to the beach.”) then change and read with great expression (“I am
going
to the beach!”). This will show the students what a big
difference it
makes when someone reads with expression.
3. Now I will write several sentences on the board. I will ask
for a
student to read that sentence without expression then reread it with
the
expression that they think is needed to make the sentence make
sense. We
will do the first one together. Ex. I love the beach! The
teacher
will read the first time with no emotion or expression then reread with
great
expression and exclamation.
4. Next the teacher will review with the class about punctuation marks
and the
feelings associated with them. The teacher will explain how a
person
might change their voice in different ways to read a sentence with a
question
mark (“Will you please hand be that book?”) or an exclamation
point(“Hand me
that book!”). There will be a class discussion and several
examples given
by both the students and the teacher.
5. Now we will be reading a book called Lee and the Team.
Book
Talk: “This book is about a boy Lee. He is on a baseball team. On the day of their game, they are late. The team is supposed to run but they do not
want to. What will happen since they do
not want to run? Lets find out!”
6. The teacher will ask the students to pull out their copies of Lee
and the
Team. First the students will read silently.
I will then call on students to read out loud
to practice using expression by having to look out for the punctuation.
Assessment:
As the
students are reading
out loud I will have my checklist checking off how they read. If they are not reading with enough
expression or not reading it correctly I will stop them, ask them why
they
think I stopped them, help them fix it, and they will then reread that
sentence.
Reference:
http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie/innov/parrishgf.html
Use
Expression! By
Melissa Parrish
Murphy,
Jill. Five Minutes’ Peace. Scholastic 1990.
Lee
and the Team.
Educational Insights: Carson, CA. 1990.