CELI 2nd Annual Reading Conference Changing Childrens Lives Through Excellent Literacy Instruction J

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CELI 2nd Annual Reading ConferenceChanging
Childrens Lives Through Excellent Literacy
InstructionJuly 29, 2009

• Integrating Accuracy into Reading Instruction

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Accuracy before Fluency

• Read this sentence
• The horse got a cold.
• Read this sentence.
• The horse got cold.

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What is Reading Accuracy?

• Webster Defines Accuracy as
• Freedom from mistake or error
• Reading Accuracy is the ability to read without
  mistakes or errors.

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Improving Accuracy

• Accuracy improves
• when students have decoding strategies in place
  to decode words.
• when students practice reading words accurately.
• An increase in accuracy leads to better fluency
  and comprehension.

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Research Base

• Accurate decoding is an important foundation
  of reading comprehension, and is a skill that
  must be mastered if students are going to be able
  to read to learn.
• (Gough Tunmer, 1986 Vellutino, Tunmer, Jacard,
  Chen, 2007)

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Research Base

• Evidence indicates that context is not a primary
  strategy used by good readers to recognize words.
  (Juel, 1991 Share Stanovich, 1995)
• Context enables the reader to accurately read 1
  out of 4 words (Gough Hillinger, 1980)

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• Two factors are relevant for fast and fluent word
  reading
• accuracy
• speed

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Suggested Accuracy Rates
Independent level 95-100 accurate Instructiona
l level 90-94 accurate Frustration level
below 90 accurate
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What is Reading Fluency?

• Reading fluency refers to
• a level of accuracy and rate where decoding
  is relatively effortless where oral reading is
  smooth and accurate with correct prosody and
  where attention can be allocated to
  comprehension
• (Wolf Katzir-Cohen, 2001)

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Measures for Assessing ORF

• DIBELS
• AIMSWeb
• (most widely used)

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Calculating ORF Accuracy

• ORF
• One minute timing
• total words read errors WCPM
• Less than one minute timing
• of words read errors total seconds
• X 60 WCPM
• Accuracy
• of words read correctly of words attempted
• X 100 accurate

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Increasing Accuracy Speed

• The oldest and most common method is the repeated
  reading technique. (Samuels, 1985)
• Repeated readings of passages
• Repeated reading of word lists

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Reps

• Reps are the number of snaps or plays a player
  gets in his respective position.
• Basketball, football, baseball, golf..
• How many reps do struggling readers need?

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Reading RealityNAEP National Assessment
of Educational Progress (1998)
30 of the 60
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20-35
60
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Reading RealityNAEP National Assessment
of Educational Progress (1998)
4-14
150-350
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How can struggling readers get that many reps?

• Whole group (exposure)
• Small group instruction (instructional level)
• 2nd dose at the AT table (supplemental)
• Learning centers (independent)
• Small group interventions (lowest deficit skills)
• AR (independent reading)

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Accuracy Practice

• Word Lists
• Word patterns
• Short vowels
• Nonsense words
• High Frequency words
• Phrases
• Sentences (unpredictable text)
• Passage Reading (Instructional Level)

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Integrating Accuracy into Reading Instruction
Using a Basal Template 2nd 3rd
Template K 1st Template
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RememberHow well we teach How well they learn.

• For More Information
• Stephanie Franklin
• sfranklin_at_msreads.org
• Cindy Hale
• chale_at_msreads.org