Training Students as Fluency Partners

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Training Students as Fluency Partners

• The Six-Minute Solution

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Introducing Student Fluency Partnerships

• Use the training packet to select materials for
  use in training your students in the Six Minute
  Solution.
• Training Packet Content
• Lesson Plan for Student Fluency Partnership
  Training
• Six Minute Solution Student Training PowerPoint
• Split column notes for student use during student
  fluency partnership training and answer key
• Split column notes answer sheet

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Selecting Training Passages

• Select training passages that are one to two
  years BELOW the lowest student in your class. You
  are training students in the procedures- not
  practicing fluency. You want students to focus on
  how to proceed during fluency practice.
• The training packet includes two practice
  passages-Fish Facts( 2nd grade level) Reptiles
  Cold Blooded Animals ( 3rd grade level). Use
  these passages for training or choose from other
  assessment passages taken in the Six Minute
  Solution.

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Training Slides for PowerPoint Presentation

• Use a multimedia projector
• Make transparencies of the PowerPoint that
  accompanies this packet.

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Lesson Plan The Six Minute Solution Fluency
Partnership Training

• Objective
• To introduce students to the concept of fluency,
  train them in the proper use of the Six Minute
  Solution Fluency Program, model it and have
  students practice as fluency partners.

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Lesson Plan The Six Minute Solution Fluency
Partnership Training

• Training Vocabulary
• fluency
• script
• vertical
• words read correctly per minute

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Lesson Plan The Six Minute Solution Fluency
Partnership Training

• Strategies
• Read Aloud
• Questioning
• Split column notes
• Fluency partner practice

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Lesson Plan PreparationComplete prior to
student training

• Materials PowerPoint Presentation
• Procedure Read the PowerPoint NOTES PAGES for
  Introducing Fluency Partnerships

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Lesson Plan IntroductionComplete prior to
student training

• Materials PowerPoint Slide 1
• Picture book Wolf
• Procedure Prepare students for learning by
  prompting them to discuss some thought provoking
  questions.

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Think, Pair, Share

• What is fluency?
• Why do you think this program is called the Six
  Minute Solution?

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Lesson Plan ProceduresReading Strategy

• Materials Overhead transparency of Student
  Fluency Partnership Training, the students
  split column notes, class set of split column
  notes
• PowerPoint presentation
• Procedure The teacher defines the first
  assignment which is to complete split-column
  notes as information is presented by PowerPoint
  slides. The students will keep these notes as a
  reference in their folders.
• The teacher uses the notes page of the PowerPoint
  presentation to train, model and provide practice
  on the use of The Six Minute Solution.

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Lesson Plan ReflectionActivity

• Materials Split-column notes
• Procedure Students will use their split-column
  notes to independently answer the following
  question Why are we going to practice fluency
  building this year?
• Upon completion of their independent responses,
  students discuss their ideas.
• Answer any questions they may have.
• Revisit the question posed at the beginning of
  the training Why is this program called The
  Six Minute Solution?

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Training Students as Fluency Partners

• The Six-Minute Solution

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• Fluency is the ability to read text

• accurately,

• quickly, and

• with expression.

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What do you need to know to be a good fluency
partner? How to
whisper read
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• underline words I dont know the first time I
  get a new passage and raise my hand to ask for
  help.

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She
was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick.
She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The
fever went away after many days. But Helen was
not the same. She was now deaf and blind.
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• add the number of correct words per minute (cwpm)
  I read

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Why are numbers before each line of this passage?
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She
was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick.
She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The
fever went away after many days. But Helen was
not the same. She was now deaf and blind.
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• Lets practice how to whisper read as a whole
  group

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She
was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick.
She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The
fever went away after many days. But Helen was
not the same. She was now deaf and blind.
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• Lets practice how to

draw a vertical line after the last word read
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• Draw a vertical line between the parentheses on
  your split-column notes.

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• Lets practice how to add the number of words
  read correctly per minute (cwpm)

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. She
was a healthy baby at first. Then she got sick.
She had scarlet fever. Helen almost died. The
fever went away after many days. But Helen was
not the same. She was now deaf and blind.
0 7 15 22 28 35 44
TOTAL WORDS READ_____ -
Errors _____ CWPM _____
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Practice whisper reading, marking the last word
you read with a vertical line, and computing
cwpm.

• North and South America are joined by a
  little piece of land. Before 1900, it was hard to
  get from the East to the West Coast. Shops had to
  sail around Cape Horn. It took three months to go
  from New York to San Diego. People wanted a
  shorter trip.
• The French started to dig a canal. It
  was hard work. Many workers died of yellow fever.
  The French gave up

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TOTAL WORDS READ_____ Errors
- _____ CWPM _____
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• Why do we reread the same passage to build
  fluency?

to become fluent readers
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to complete homework more efficiently
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to improve our comprehension
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to practice reading nonfiction passages
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Fluency Partner Behavior
Partners are selected according to test data the
computer program matches partners.
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Fluency Partner Behavior
Your fluency partnership is a working
relationship for only 6 minutes of the day.
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Fluency Partner Behavior

• You MUST work cooperatively and respectfully.

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Fluency partners are polite and helpful. They use
a script to make practice go smoothly.
Fluency Partner Behavior
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Correction Script

• The partner who marked errors points to the first
  error and says the correct word, This word is
  _______.
• The marker then says, What word?
• The reader then repeats the word correctly.
• Partners repeat this process until all words are
  corrected.
• Then say, You read ____ words. I heard ___
  errors. Your correct words per minute are ____.

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What errors do I mark during fluency practice?
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Oral Reading Fluency Errors Draw a slanted line
through these errors.

• Mispronunciations/Dropped endings

• Substitutions

• Hesitations/No attempt

• Omissions

• Transpositions (out of sequence)

• Repeated errors count each time

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You do not have to write the correct word above
the error! The incorrect word is written above
to show you what the person read aloud. Partners
only need to draw slanted lines through errors.
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Examples of Errors
Mispronunciation He walked down the
stairs. Dropped Endings The dogs ran faster and
faster.
stars
dog
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Substitutions The fluffy animal strutted
across the open field.
ground
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Hesitations/No Attempt
(Reader
waits longer than 3 seconds) I have a
purple bear.
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Omissions   My dog ran home
quickly.  Transpositions   The
servant cleaned and cooked.
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Repeated errors count each time. How many errors
are on this page?   The reptile slithered down
the steps and hid in the basement. There are
many reptiles that live around our house. We are
not afraid of these reptiles because we know they
will keep harmful insects from eating our plants.
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Repeated errors count each time. How many errors
are on this page?   The reptile slithered down
the steps and hid in the basement. There are
many reptiles that live around our house. We are
not afraid of these reptiles because we know they
will keep harmful insects from eating our plants.
reptell
reptells
reptells
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DO NOT COUNT AS ERRORS

• Errors made, then self-corrected
• Repeated words read correctly
• Punctuation errors
• Dialect or speech problems
• Insertions

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Ill read a passage for you to practice marking
errors. The passage entitled, Fish Facts, can
be found in your notes packet. Remember you only
draw a slanted line through errors.
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• How do I graph my cwpm?

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Partner Fluency Graphing Recording Sheet Student
Name_______________________
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Here is the minute-by-minute breakdown of The
Six-Minute Solution
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Minute 1

• Partner 1 arranges the chairs while partner 2
  picks up the folder.
• Both partners enter todays date and the passage
  number on their graphs.
• Get ready! Partner 1 always reads first while
  Partner 2 marks errors.

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Minute 2

• Partner 1 begins to read when the teacher says
  begin. Partner 1 will read for one minute.
• Partner 2 marks errors with a slanted line and
  the last word with a vertical line.

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Minute 3

• Partner 2 uses the correction script to give
• errors,
• the total number of words read,
• the number of errors,
• and the total correct words per minute (cwpm).
• Partner 2 then erases the errors while Partner 1
  enters cwpm on his/her graph.

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Minute 4

• Partner 2 begins to read when the teacher starts
  the timer. Partner 2 reads for 1 minute.
• Partner 1 marks errors with a slanted line and
  the last word with a vertical line.

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Minute 5

• Partner 1 uses the correction script to give
• errors,
• the total number of words read,
• the number of errors,
• and the total correct words per minute.
• Partner 1 then erases the errors while Partner 2
  enters cwpm on his/her graph.

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Minute 6

• Partner 1 puts the chairs back in place.
• Partner 2 puts the folder away.

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Lets practice the Six-Minute Solution using
the passage in your split-column notes.
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Use your split-column notes to answer this
question

• Why are we going to practice building fluency
  this year?

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Before you leave class, write at least three
sentences that describe what you think of fluency
practice based on what youve learned today.