The 6 Minute Solution

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The 6 Minute Solution

• Teaching your students to be fluent readers

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Reading

• Do your students hate to read?
• Do your students struggle over high frequency
  words?
• Is it painful to listen to your students read out
  loud?
• Are your students meeting standards?

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What does the research say?

• There is a high correlation between comprehension
  and fluency. Comprehension suffers when students
  lack fluency.
• If students are not fluent, cognitive energies
  are focused on decoding and word recognition and
  therefore are not available for comprehension.
• 44 of 4th grade readers are not fluent readers.
• Research shows that educators have
• the knowledge and tools to affect this problem.

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Why teach fluency?

• Nothing is more painful and frustrating to a
  teacher than to hear a student arduously reading
  a sentence word by word, seeming to have to
  physically drag himself or herself to the end of
  the sentence
• The 6 Minute Solution is a research-based, highly
  effective instructional procedure for grades 3-8
  that builds reading fluency in only 6 minutes of
  the instructional day
• Good readers as well as struggling readers
  benefit from this daily fluency practice

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Fluency can be taught

• Guided, repeated oral-reading procedures are
  appropriate and valuable avenues for increasing
  reading fluency and overall reading achievement
• Fluency practice supports comprehension
• As students build fluency through rereading, they
  amass a larger reading
• vocabulary

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How the Program Works

• Students are paired with a student who reads at
  approximately the same level and speed.
• Partner 1 reads for one minute while partner 2
  listens and records errors.
• CWPM are recorded on students Fluency Record.
• Students switch roles.

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Pre-Assessment

• Assessment is critical in determining fluency
  partners and in selection of the appropriate
  reading level of the Practice Passages.
• Students instructional reading levels using the
  San Diego Quick.
• Students oral fluency rates on a Practice
  Passage (CWPM - correct words per minute).

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Selecting Fluency Partners

• Create Excel spreadsheets using pre-assessments
  data
• Match students as closely as possible by both
  their oral-reading fluency rates and their
  instructional reading levels
• An appropriate match is
• critical to success

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Training Students

• Spend ample time training students in the
  procedures
• Instruct students in appropriate fluency
  partnership behavior
• Employ an explicit instructional model when
  teaching the procedures
• Model, model, model
• Give feedback and remodel before students
  practice the procedures
• independently

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Program Advantages

• Program can be used with the entire class daily.
• Students are responsible for keeping track of
  their progress. Students can see their
  improvement.
• Students continue to encounter more challenging
  texts during school year so all students continue
  to grow.

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Summary

• Students reread to build fluency
• Student partners work together to build fluency
• Fluency influences decoding, comprehension and
  reading achievement
• Work completion and
• reading achievement
• improve