Week 7 Assignment 2

It is very important that students are given the proper materials to support fluency. The classroom should supply students with the appropriate texts, the opportunities to practice reading, and an effective non-interruptive reading strategy. The texts should math the appropriate grade level of reading especially in science and social studies. Students should read a lot because practice maters. It is proven that students with little practice are low level readers and students with a lot of practice are at a high success level reader. In Caroline Cockman’s third grade class, she had her students rate their books on three categories, too challenging, just right, and too easy. The just right books were chosen to meet the needs of each child. Struggling readers read about 20-30 minutes a day where as advanced readers read 1.5-2 hours per day. The goal of reading is comprehension but you want your students to receive goosebumps, giggles, or tears from what they grasp. As a teacher, I want to model what a good reader does and enforce that they should be self monitors and self regulating. I do not want to create word by word readers and make sure that I am expressive and use the appropriate innovation to reflect emotion.