Faith, Excellent work!! I appreciate your sharing it with the world! I did a lot of this when I worked directly with students as their language therapist; my students predominantly had/have dyslexia and likely a bunch of them had DLD--I knew something was up with their oral language skills, but a diagnosis of DLD just did not exist at the time. Love that you are tackling 'whole/entire books' with your HS students. They need it! Carry on!
Ugh this is so fantastic Faith. Meaningful fluency practice like this should be the norm and you show us just how powerful it can be when done with intention. Love seeing your daily routines and how structured it is. Such a great lesson in doing less more deeply and the dividends that pays. Excellent point about students learning to read actively after YEARS of decoding commanding all of their cognitive attention, they need to learn what fluent reading actually feels like because they haven't often experienced it. I can't wait to implement Find It Fridays in my intervention class.
Sara, thank you so much for all you said here! I definitely learned from my own blunders in wasted time fluency drills. I'm excited to share so that other students might benefit from this intentionality! And I know you're doing a lot of this important work with your students too!
This is awesome! I just participated in another training series where we focused on grammar and how it links to improved prosody. Thanks for sharing your routines!
Faith, Excellent work!! I appreciate your sharing it with the world! I did a lot of this when I worked directly with students as their language therapist; my students predominantly had/have dyslexia and likely a bunch of them had DLD--I knew something was up with their oral language skills, but a diagnosis of DLD just did not exist at the time. Love that you are tackling 'whole/entire books' with your HS students. They need it! Carry on!
Ugh this is so fantastic Faith. Meaningful fluency practice like this should be the norm and you show us just how powerful it can be when done with intention. Love seeing your daily routines and how structured it is. Such a great lesson in doing less more deeply and the dividends that pays. Excellent point about students learning to read actively after YEARS of decoding commanding all of their cognitive attention, they need to learn what fluent reading actually feels like because they haven't often experienced it. I can't wait to implement Find It Fridays in my intervention class.
Sara, thank you so much for all you said here! I definitely learned from my own blunders in wasted time fluency drills. I'm excited to share so that other students might benefit from this intentionality! And I know you're doing a lot of this important work with your students too!
This is awesome! I just participated in another training series where we focused on grammar and how it links to improved prosody. Thanks for sharing your routines!
Thank you, Clara! I'm glad you found it useful and it's always good to hear that my methods are reinforced in other places and spaces!