Background
Student: Daniel
Age: 9.8
Grade: 4th
Focus : Fluency
Scenario: Daniel is a quiet fourth grader who is
naturally organized and thrives on structure. Daniel’s mother reports that
he tends to be focused on tasks, even in play. Daniel’s teacher, Mrs.
Clifton, has also notices that he is diligent with academic tasks. When
reading aloud in class, Daniel is able to read all sight words and decode
most multi-syllable words he encounters, Howe ever, Daniel’s fluency is not
at the level of most fourth graders. Mrs. Clifton reports he is a word-by
–word reader and doesn’t read with proper tone or expression, but she feels
he has skills needed to become a fluent, expressive reader.
Daniel
can read sight words and decode most syllable parts. I will assess this
situation by making a weekly activity called “Reader’s theater”
The
goal of this activity is to help Daniel to set a tone or an expression on his
reading.
This
will be a 10 weeks assignment. Each week as a class we will read 2 chapters.
As
an introduction to the book, we will watch “Charlotte’s Web Movie”. While they
are watching the movie they will draw a picture of each character. (This will
help students to recognize each charter.)
As
a class, we will read the first chapter of the week together. With a partner,
students will read the second chapter.
While
reading the story, students are responsible to write the character’s quoted
words on the character worksheet.
At
the end of the day, partners are responsible to share at least one quote with
the class using the appropriate tone.
Daniel
and his classmate will understand and know how to set tone while reading.
