There are four different areas in the reading process including: phonemic awareness, word identification, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each of areas play key roles for literacy development in the classroom and I feel as though I have thoroughly learned what each one consists of. While they are all necessary, which one would you prefer to teach?
Personally, I believe the area in the reading process that I am most excited to teach is fluency. While all areas are fascinating in there own ways, fluency seems to be more creative than the others. Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. This is important because being fluent allows readers to focus more on comprehension rather than the actual words themselves.
After a lot of research, I found multiple exciting ways to improve fluency in the classroom. The website that had a fantastic list of ideas was Scholastic, that I listed below. A few of the activities that they listed were sight word poetry pages, jumbo book of sight words, and read aloud plays such as the image shows above.
Overall, I will say that while all four different areas in the reading process are a must in the classroom, some are definitely more exciting to teach than others for both teachers and students. There is nothing wrong with preferring to teach some areas over others as long as you realise the importance that they all bring to our students and continue to put in the same amount of effort.
Sources:
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-tools/articles/7-must-have-resources-to-improve-reading-fluency-right-now.html
Another great post, I couldn't agree more. I loved reading your blog post and enjoyed our time together in class during this session. You are going to be a wonderful teacher, and I can tell by this blog post that you are an incredibly passionate, and kind individual. you have been nothing short of a fantastic class for me this session, and I am happy to have learned so much from this blog you are so correct, the way that we care for and educate our students is vital. when I read something like this, not only do I feel educated, but I also feel happy to share the same passions with another educator. good luck with your future endeavors as a teacher. it was so nice meeting you.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mention that all four areas are a must. I know we have talked about this before in previous classes, but we cannot expect an understanding of one area without the balance from the others as well. Especially with the younger students we have to ensure that we are balancing each part in an effective way for their full understanding.
ReplyDeleteOn to fluency, yes we have to have this very important piece! When students have difficulties with fluency it trickles into comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition, and more. If they cannot pronounce the word correctly, they cannot understand the word correctly.