Fluency and word study- part 2

1.                 There are three level of words. The first level of words are words that are commonly used and don’t need to be taught. Since students have already mastered in these words. The second level of words are words that appear quite often in students’ lives, and read them pretty often, these words need to be taught. The last level of words are the more technical words and relate to a specific topic. These words do not need to be taught to children since it will be taught by the subject teacher.

  

2.                 Students often struggle when they come to an unfamiliar or new word. I would teach students how to break up the words into smaller chunks called “chunking”. Students rip off the beginning and ends of a word, and try to read the part that is familiar to them. Students will at first use their thumbs, but then they figure out how to do it without it. 

3.                 A teacher should encourage lots of reading in her classroom, students should be given many opportunities to hear someone read. When a student comes across a word that they don’t know how to read or what a word means, I will encourage them to use “chunking”.