Week 7/8 Assignment 2 Videos

• How did Charmon Evans and Shari Frost differ in their phonics instruction? Why do you think they used different approaches?

Ms. Evans took the small group approach.  Front loading vocabulary she knew the students would read in the new story she would be introducing.   Ms. Frost used the whole group instruction approach.  The majority of the group help her build words that are a part of the “ug” family.  The brought in their background knowledge of words they have heard.

 

• Which principles of phonics instruction were illustrated in these classroom lessons?

The words generated by Ms. Frost’s students were rhyming words until they thought of the words ugly, juggle, and muggle.  Ms. Evans used alphabet principle.

 

• Which lessons seemed to promote more student engagement and motivation?

I think both lessons promoted student engagement and motivation.  In Ms. Evans small group, students were engaged in using their knowledge regarding the silent “e” and created words using the prompts given to them by the teacher.  In Ms. Frost class, the whole group was engaged and motivated they enjoyed creating their word list together and reciting the Poem of the Week.

 

• Shari Frost used her "Poem of the Week" and Becky Pursley used her "Readers Theater activities" to practice reading accuracy and fluency. How did student performance in the two activities differ? How would you assess the reading fluency of students performing Readers Theater based on the three stages of fluency?

 

In Ms. Frost lesson, all students were engaged in practicing the poem of the week.  In Ms. Pursley’s lesson, the students in the readers theatre were practicing their communication skills along with reading fluency.  The remainder of the class was practicing their listening skills. 

 

• What other activities have you planned to promote reading fluency?  I have not planned any activities to promote reading fluency.  I teach 6^th grade math and the students do have good fluency when reading; however, some do struggle with comprehension.