noteblog-fluency due 3-16

I feel that bookclub is a great way to teach fluency. Students could read aloud using diferent voices for each character. This way they would have to be paying attention to who is talking and what that person might sound like. In order to do this, a student would have to be somewhat fluent, especially to make it sound like natural conversation. I also feel that developing vocabulary would help students become more fluent readers. working in groups would allow students to discuss what they feel a word means and how to pronounce it if it is a word they never saw before. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry would most likely be taught to older students who have a large vocabulary where most words are sight words. However, they are also at an advantage when it comes to large words they have never seen before because they are better able to look at phonemes and morphemes. In other words, according to Tompkins, they can look at the individual sounds and or parts of the word and be able to come up with what the word sounds like. By working in groups, they would be able to work together on this in order to arrive at the true sound of the word and then develop its meaning. This way, when the students come up to the word later on in the book, or when reading something else, they will know how to say it and what it means and will not have to stop to sound it out or look up its meaning, thus making them more fluent readers.