Effective Strategies to Expand Vocabulary

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Jennings, Caldwell and Lerner stated that the National Reading Panel describes reading fluency as identifying words accurately, reading rate and reading with expression. These components affect comprehension greatly. Accuracy allows the reader to naturally recognize words that are unfamiliar and words that are familiar. This early developed skill use decoding skills to crack unfamiliar words. Eventually these words will become sight words because the reader has seen them often enough to pull them from memory (Jennings, Caldwell & Learner, 2010, p. 215). Without accuracy, the reader will not get the author’s intended meaning which can lead to misinterpretation. Reading rate refers to the speed at which a student is able to identify both known and unknown words. Because they can recognize words instantly, they are free from constantly decoding words which allows them to gain comprehension. My case study student, Akema reads at a slow rate. Because he lacks speed, he is not able to construct an ongoing interpretation of text. unfortunately for Akema, because he cannot recognize words on contact his level of comprehension is low and finally fluent readers are able to convey meaning by reading with expression and use of various voice tones and punctuation signals. Poor prosody or expression confuses the reader because of inappropriate groupings of words (Jennings, Caldwell & Learner, 2010, p. 216). Reading with accuracy, speed and expression certainly make reading enjoyable and improve comprehension.

I plan to teach the third grade and building fluency on that grade level takes time and effort. It will not happen overnight therefore I must start with motivating my third graders by starting out with books that are easy a...

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...es conveyance mean? The choices are animal, wheel, travel vehicle. Base on the words surrounding conveyance, it is possible to tell that mule cart and train are means of transportation. The four steps used to figure out conveyance are to look at the word and then read the sentence, then connect the word to knowledge of the text and then make a prediction. If used properly these strategies are effective in expanding vocabulary (Jennings, Caldwell & Learner, 2010, p. 258-263).

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