Mad Minute 3rd Grade

[Rode Strawther]

TheHasbrouck-Tindal oral reading fluency charts show the oral reading fluency norms of students as determined by data collected by Jan Hasbrouck and Gerald Tindal. Teachers can use these tables to draw conclusions and make decisions about the oral reading fluency of their students.

Students need a fluency-building program (such as the Read Naturally Strategy programs) if they score 10 or more words below the 50th percentile level for their grade. Use the average score from two unpracticed readings from grade-level materials. Use an oral reading fluency assessment to assess students.

*WCPM = Words Correct Per Minute

**Average weekly improvement is the average words per week growth you can expect from a student. It was calculated by dividing the difference between the fall and spring scores by 32, the typical number of weeks between the fall and spring assessments. For grade 1, since there is no fall assessment, the average weekly improvement was calculated by dividing the difference between the winter and spring scores by 16, the typical number of weeks between the winter and spring assessments.

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Reading too slowly impairs our comprehension. When you read too slowly, it is hard to hold a complete thought in place. The action of reading slowly is inefficient. Reading slowly makes it difficult to understand what you read.

Reading too quickly and speed reading can also lead to poor comprehension. When you read too fast, supporting details are often lost. People sometimes skim while reading and miss important parts. This makes me think of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This chair is too big, this one is too small, ah, this one is just right.

Based on research from Rosalind Streichler, Ph.D., Center for Teaching Development, University of California, San Diego; Karron G. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness. Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, The University of Texas at Austin; and research conducted at Cambridge University in England; we can assume that the average college student can read 250 words per minute and that the average textbook has approximately 800 words per page. Therefore, it would take 3.2 minutes to read one page, 32 minutes to read 10 pages, and a little over an hour to read 20 pages.

Previously, it had been thought that the average adult reads at a rate of 300 words per minute. However, Marc Brysbaert from Ghent University in Belgium analyzed 190 studies on reading rates. He found that the average adult reading rate has been overestimated.

The most effective way to improve your average reading speed is to do reading fluency training. Fluency training speeds up your ability to both decode and retrieve information from memory, RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming).

A second piece of improving fluency is to strengthen your eye movements (eye training). In order to read with skill, your eyes need to move smoothly across the page from left to right (visual tracking).

Rayner, in 1997, summarized 25 years of research on eye movements. Reading involves eye movements. These eye movements are called saccades. This is when the eyes are moving rapidly. Rapid eye movements and eye-tracking are separated by fixations when the eyes are relatively still.

Saccade movements typically travel about 6 to 9 letter spaces. They are not impacted by the size of the print. The complete perceptual span is larger, extending to 14 or 15 letter spaces to the right and 3 to 4 spaces to the left. It is the saccade movement to the left combined with the perceptual span length that assures that every letter of every word enters the visual field.

Understanding this visual span perception span combination leads us to realize that efficient readers do this easily. About 10-15% of the time, readers also shift back (known as regression) to look back at the material that has already been read. As the text becomes more difficult, saccade length tends to decrease, and regression frequency increases.

So, when we talk about improving reading speed, we are NOT talking about speed reading! We are talking about improving your reading speed and accuracy along with comprehension to a physically sound rate for your age or grade level.

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Download the first drill of our custom-designed reading fluency training. The first sets of words have extra space between the letters, highlighting or emphasizing the letter or letter combination being studied. The fluency training program organizes the drills according to phonic rules and letter combinations. Each drill builds upon prior drills, providing continual review and mastery of all concepts.

A 2017 study by Taylor, Davis, and Rastle showed that learning to read by sounding out words (phonics) has a dramatic impact on both the accuracy of reading aloud and on comprehension. Researchers tested whether learning to read by sounding out words is more effective than focusing on whole-word meanings. Their results suggest that early literacy should focus on phonics (letters-to-sounds) rather than on teaching sight-word strategies (whole language approach).

I found the StudioBinder article very informative. If you are just asking about which colours match which moods you can make generalisations like some colours and their associations that have been used in some Hollywood classics:

As for the intuition you requested for a 5-minute grade, the really short answer would be to aim for first making the image correct (White Balance, Levels, Contrast, Saturation) and only then attempt to get creative or expressive (Color Grading, LUT, effects). Without this order, any creative effort could get unpredictably wonky because of problems rippling up from uncorrected footage.

In the beginning of the year we have about 30 minutes to use exclusively for Social Studies at the end of our class. For example in September and October we focused on Geography. While engaged in our Geography unit, we are still very focused on ELA standards. We work on vocabulary, informative writing, reading nonfiction, and discussing topics using accountable talk. ELA and social studies blend so well together!

For summary writing I use the strategy SWBST. This stands for Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then. It is a great way to model for students how to summarize fiction. SOMEBODY Who is the main character? WANTED What does the character want to achieve? BUT What is the problem or obstacle in the story? SO How does the character address the problem? THEN How does the story end?

To teach students how to write a short response to a text based question, I use the strategy RACE. This stands for Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain. This strategy is easy for students to remember and it prompts them to support their answers with text evidence. RESTATE Echo the questions. ANSWER Provide an answer to the question. CITE Give specific text evidence. EXPLAIN Explain why your evidence is important or relevant.

Students should be automatic with facts. How fast is automatic? Well, it depends on which research you read and timing methods. In general, students should be able to answer 40 math fact problems per minute. Read on to learn why and see timed math fluency expectations by grade level.

Being able to recall math facts quickly and accurately is a critical skill for students as they progress through school. In the early grades, knowing the answers to math facts from memory serves as a foundation for more complex problem-solving. As students move on to higher grades, they will be expected to complete more difficult, multi-part math tasks. If students cannot quickly remember the answers to basic math facts by the time they reach these higher grades, it will interfere with their ability to concentrate on more advanced tasks. Students who must stop and think about, or count out, simple math facts get lost in the steps of multi-part, complex mathematic procedures. Not to mention the fact, that math work becomes a slow and onerous process when you have to look up or figure out most facts.

Knowing math facts from memory means being able to automatically recall the answers to these facts without hesitation. Stopping to figure it out by some method, is not recall and will never be fluent. Most psychological studies have looked at automatic response time as measured in milliseconds and found that automatic (direct retrieval) response times usually range from 400 to 900 milliseconds (less than one second) from presentation of a visual stimulus to a keyboard or oral response.

If measured verbally, a response delay of about 1 second would be automatic. When writing, students should be able to complete 40 math facts per minute. However, expectations vary by grade level and writing speed.

In general, students should be able to complete 100 problems correctly in five minutes by the end of second grade, 150 problems correctly in five minutes by the end of third grade, 200 problems correctly in five minutes by the end of fourth grade, and so on. However, it is important to note that these are just general guidelines and only apply to students who can write at those speeds.

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