EDU-EDU8610 - Building Reading and Writing Fluency
Course Description
This writing and reading fluency program will teach you how to enhance your student's fluency through targeted activities using a specific grouping approach. You will learn specific station and activity suggestions that focus on phonics, word work, sight words, reading fluency, and writing fluency. While this reading and writing course is best for most students in the primary and elementary grades, it could also benefit older students still grappling with writing and reading fluency. You will design a plan of action that can be utilized to develop fluency stations in your classroom, and you will leave the course with templates, tools, and graphic organizers ready to be used in your classroom.
Course Outline
1. Strategic Grouping
Learn the five research-based stages of spelling development and how grouping students based on spelling can help support and improve reading and writing fluency, then plan for how you'd group students based on these stages.
2. Phonics
Learn various activities for supporting phonics instruction in literacy stations, then reflect on how you would plan for phonics in a classroom at your grade level.
3. Word Work
Learn various activities for supporting word work, including some printable resources to implement into future stations, then reflect on how you would plan for word work in a classroom at your grade level.
4. Sight Words
Learn sight words activities, including a printable word bump game and a stations planner, then reflect on how you would plan for sight words in a classroom at your grade level.
5. Reading Fluency
Learn reading fluency activities with suggestions for implementation, then reflect on how you would plan for reading fluency in a classroom at your grade level.
6. Writing Fluency
Learn writing fluency activities with suggestions for implementation, then reflect on how you would plan for reading fluency in a classroom at your grade level.
7. Putting it All Together
Using the sample provided, build your own station activities plan to support reading and writing fluency in your classroom.
8. Applying What you Have Learned
Get ideas on how to implement the concepts into your classroom, find a list of online resources that support reading and writing fluency, and read the research behind effective literacy programs.
Learner Outcomes
- Identify specific grouping strategies to support fluency instruction
- Evaluate phonics, word work, sight words, reading fluency, and writing fluency stations ideas using specific activities
- Design a fluency plan ready to implement in the classroom