Feild Evidence Report #5

Lindsey Payne

RICA Domain 3: Fluency

RICA Competency 9: Fluency: Instruction and Assessment

Grade Level: First Grade

            Mrs. T teaches fluency through tape assisted reading (B 3 on pg. 70). She has been scaffolding this activity since the first week of school. During “center rotations” on the first two weeks of school, small groups of students would listen to a tape recording and try to read along with the story. During the third week, students were instructed to point to each word as the person on the recording read them. Recently, the students have been told to read aloud with the tape as they point to each word being read. The tape is designed to allow students to read aloud at a moderate pace. At this point in the year, students are able to read aloud with the tape as they look at the text. Through this fluency activity, students learn how to improve accuracy, rate and prosody. As time goes on, Mrs. T changes the books on tape to more challenging and longer books.