LITERACY DIET ACTIVITIES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL READERS To Develop Fluency Daily reading in independent or familiar instructional To focus on level texts FLUENCY Repeated readings (including timed repeated readings) GOAL: Speed, accuracy, and prosody Paired reading Radio reading and poetry reading 20% of instructional time Choral and echo reading Reader’s theater Chunking strategies Fluency checklists for self-assessment Look for the signal Marking phrases Repeated readings with emotion cards Rasinski phrases with emotion cards Tape-assisted reading To Develop Letter-Pattern Knowledge Word sorts To focus on Writing sorts WORD KNOWLEDGE Word hunts (including Analogy-based activities spelling/phonics/phonological To Develop Automaticity of High Frequency Words awareness) Word banks High-frequency word bingo Sentence concentration GOAL: Automatic word recognition/ Word wall activities understand pattern and meaning layer Flashed words of orthography Rasinski phrases To Develop Reading Strategies 20% of instructional time Word analysis strategies (analogy, chunking, etc.) Self-Questioning bookmarks Personal readers To Enhance Comprehension Development DL-TA/DR-TA format for read-alouds To focus on Use of fiction and non-fiction texts COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY Explicit instruction of comprehension skills, inc. Making predictions GOAL: Strategies for reading Making connections to experience, world, other comprehension books, etc. Building/accessing prior knowledge 40% of instructional time Visualization Self-monitoring Questioning Making inferences Summarizing
LITERACY DIET ACTIVITIES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL READERS To focus on FLUENCY GOAL: Speed, accuracy, and prosody 20% of instructional time To Develop Fluency Daily reading in independent or familiar instructional level texts Repeated readings (including timed repeated readings) Paired reading Radio reading and poetry reading Choral and echo reading Reader’s theater Chunking strategies Fluency checklists for self-assessment Look for the signal Marking phrases Repeated readings with emotion cards Rasinski phrases with emotion cards Tape-assisted reading To focus on WORD KNOWLEDGE (including spelling/phonics/phonological awareness) GOAL: Automatic word recognition/ understand pattern and meaning layer of orthography 20% of instructional time To Develop Letter-Pattern Knowledge Word sorts Writing sorts Word hunts Analogy-based activities To Develop Automaticity of High Frequency Words Word banks High-frequency word bingo Sentence concentration Word wall activities Flashed words Rasinski phrases To Develop Reading Strategies Word analysis strategies (analogy, chunking, etc.) Self-Questioning bookmarks Personal readers To focus on COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY GOAL: Strategies for reading comprehension 40% of instructional time To Enhance Comprehension Development DL-TA/DR-TA format for read-alouds Use of fiction and non-fiction texts Explicit instruction of comprehension skills, inc. Making predictions Making connections to experience, world, other books, etc. Building/accessing prior knowledge Visualization Self-monitoring Questioning Making inferences Summarizing