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Spotlight Sessions: Webinars for Educators

Building Contextual Reading Fluency Through Phrase-Level Practice, Virtual – Summer Institute 2021

COURSE LOGISTICS

• Type: Spotlight session
• Duration: 1 hour
• Attendance: Live, attendance required on date and time listed in the course information section
• Platform: Zoom. Login credentials emailed the day before the course begins

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Reading fluency is considered a student’s ability to accurately read connected text with appropriate pacing and prosody (phrasing and expression). Often, students are not able to apply decoding skills in context with automaticity. Phrase-level practice allows students to build word recognition skills and apply them to increasingly larger chunks of text. In this one-hour webinar, specific phrase-level strategies and activities will be demonstrated. Implications for all areas of fluency (accuracy, rate, and phrasing/expression) will be discussed. 

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the importance of phrase-level practice within the context of word recognition and contextual reading fluency
• Determine specific strategies that will address all three areas of reading fluency (accuracy, rate, and phrasing/expression)
• Develop phrase-level activities for students through materials already being used within a participant’s classroom
• Access ready-made, expert-developed activities and resources

LEVEL

This course is appropriate for educators at the elementary and middle school levels.

MATERIALS

All necessary materials will be shared electronically.