Batter Up!
Growing
Rationale: Help
children learn to read more fluently.
This is important because you can better comprehend material
when you
read it fluently. We will be practicing
how to read faster. If you are able to
read the material fast and are not spending too much time on decoding
you are
better able to comprehend what you are reading. This will be done
through
repeated reading of texts.
Materials:
Stopwatch
pencil
Sheet with scoreboard for
each student
class set of Lee and the
Team (Educational Insights)
Procedures:
1.
Introduce the lesson by talking about crosschecking.
Tell the students that you crosscheck so that
you can make sure that what you are reading is making sense. For example if you read the sentence “My
favorite gum is baseball” does that make sense?
Do you think I might have read
one of the words wrong? Do you think I
might have read “game” as “gum”. Does
game make more sense? Lets re-read the
sentence and see “My favorite game is baseball”. That
makes a lot more sense.
2.
Today we are going to try to learn how to read faster.
(Write sentence on board) Sometimes when you
first read something you read it really slowly: I hhaaave a ddooogg
named
Bbaabe. If I read it again it might sound like this: I haave a dog
naamedd
bbabe. But if I read it yet again it
might sound like this: I have a dog named Babe.
Do you hear a difference in the way I first read it and the
last? We are
going to practice that today. We are
going to see how fast and smooth we can read something.
3.
Write a sentence on the board “my team had a score of five to win the
game.” Put the children in pairs and ask
them to read the sentence to each other three times and see how fast
and smooth
they can read it after the third time.
4. Give each
student a copy of Lee and the
Team. Tell them about the story. "Lee is on a baseball
team.
He cannot get his teammates to go run anywhere. They would rather sit
in the
weeds. How will he get them to the game? Read the story to find out
what
happens. Ask each student to read the
story once to themselves.
5.
Put the children back with their partners.
Give each child a copy of a
scoreboard. Have them write the number
of words their partner reads in a minute on the board.
When they switch have their partner write the
number of words per minute on the other scoreboard.
Show them an example. Tell them not
to just read fast, but smoothly
also.
6.
Have each student read to their partner twice times and switch. Get them to turn in their scoreboards at the
end so you can assess if their reading improved. Walk
around while they are doing their reads
to make sure they are doing it right.
Example of scoreboard:
| #
of Tries |
# of words read per minute |
| 1 |
|
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
Reference: Keith, Cassie. Running the Bases for more
Fluent
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