Teacher Strategy

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.