By Steve Peterson and Matt Amundson Are you looking for a repeated reading routine to help you reach readers who are not-yet fluent? Matt Amundson and I developed a repeated reading protocol that would provide support for readers and would allow these readers to listen to themselves reading (and to hear their improvement!) Overview For this project, Matt and I record ourselves reading short reading passages using Screencastify, an easy-to-use screencast tool that easily deposits the video into a folder in Drive and provides an “Anyone Can View” link automatically. This provides a model of fluent reading for the student. We embed this screencast in a Google doc so kids could listen to fluent reading PRIOR to their own reading. Finally, we pushed the document out to students using Google Classroom, but Canvas will work too. So, what are the steps? The sections below should give you a pretty clear idea of how to do this for your own students. Find Leveled Stories Any short story will work for this project. We chose to use the stories that you can access via Text Help: Fluency Tutor because they can be easily sorted by Lexile level. Just set up a free account and you have access to the stories. At some point, we would like to extend this to other kinds of literature and, perhaps, even poetry. Create a Google Doc We copied the stories onto a Google doc template that looks like the screenshot below. (You can make a copy of this doc, then substitute your own links to get you started.) Note that we highlight words that we think students will have difficulty with. That serves to remind them not to skip over the words, but to focus on them as they listen to us read the passage. Store Your Work on Google Drive Matt and I have a shared folder where we put leveled readings and our screencast videos. Here’s what that looks like: Inside each one of these folders are several reading passages at that level: Record a Screencast We like to record a screencast of us reading the assigned reading so students can have a model of fluent reading to listen to. It also helps students know how to read more difficult words. You can listen to the screencast by clicking on the link in Step 1 at the top of the doc at this link. Basically, it’s just a video of one of us reading the passage so the student can follow along with the words as we read. Push the Assignment to Student We used Google Classroom to push the assignment out to students. However, Canvas assignments are equally as easy to use. Students listen to the screencast (Step 1), then read several times either alone or with a mentor, another student, or a teacher. After they record themselves reading (using Screencastify), they turn in their work. In Canvas, students would record themselves directly within the assignment and submit using the built in media function. Teachers can efficiently check assignments, listen to recordings, and have reflective conversations using the Canvas SpeedGrader feature. We can easily check to see who has turned in the assignment, listen to their recording, and have a reflective conversation with the student. In Google Classroom, the assignments look like this: We developed this workflow because we wanted to help students do more work on their own. If you would like some help setting up a similar work flow for your students, please talk to either Matt Amundson or Steve Peterson. Shannon Quandahl can also help with using the Canvas platform to share this with students.
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Amanda Maki
5/8/2020 10:17:58 am
Thanks for this! I like the idea of modeling fluent reading, and I think this is something I could use for my students. I could see having them listen to me read and then recording themselves reading the passage as a Daily 5 rotation in their classrooms. Thank you for your post!!
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Heath Kelley
5/14/2020 07:22:00 pm
Great work guys. Screencastify is such a versatile tool. The big advantage to using Screencastify, in my opinion, is the fact that you can be so many places at once as a teacher. This set up enables students to work at their own pace and reflect on how their fluency compares to your reading. Thanks for your hard work and willingness to share.
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Andrea Knaack
5/15/2020 03:13:11 pm
I appreciate the idea of students being able to record themselves reading the passage, which allows for feedback from the teacher. I think it would be interesting to sit with the student at some point and listen to the recording together to see what their own feedback might be as they listen to themselves. I can see this being especially important for students who need to continue to work on voice inflection, attention to punctuation, etc.
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Zachary Fromm
5/18/2020 04:01:19 am
Cutting edge stuff you guys. What a resource for struggling students. I know I would have benefited from something like this as a kid and one who struggled with reading (still do). Thanks for offering suggestions for how it could work across LMS's as well. Can't wait to collaborate more with both of you in the future!
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Mary Winger
5/20/2020 07:52:28 am
Thanks for sharing this innovative teaching method to help students become better readers. It sounds fun, too!
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