Reading+Meets+Web+2.0+Fluency

Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. Fluent readers do not have to concentrate on decoding the words, so they can focus their attention on what the text means. source: Elizabeth Sessions ** Developing Speed and Accuracy Using Technology Tools
 * Fluency **
 * Fluency is speedy and accurate reading to support student comprehension of text.

Thanks to E. Sessions of Technology in Motion, State of Alabama Department of Education for many of these fabulous ideas.

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1. Podcasting--Many students have never heard themselves read. Podcasts give quick and understandable feedback to the reader on his/her fluency Post your podcasts to NESA Virtual School (NVS), podOmatic http://www.podomatic.com/featured or Kid-Cast http://www.kid-cast.com/ (Remember, it's only really a podcast if folks outside our school community can access it.)

2. Let's Try One! Poems Online http://www.poetry4kids.com/poems

3. Check out this podcast! Thanks Ms. Diaz at Chickasaw Elementary

4. Want somewhere safe to post your vodcasts? Try SchoolTube and post to your own SchoolTube Channel http://www.schooltube.com/

5. Create a PowerPoint with vocabulary words and upload to SlideShare. http://www.slideshare.net/ Have students record and time themselves reading the words with any simple recording device. Do the same thing with sentences and have students read and record themselves to improve fluency.

View more presentations from teachingwithtech. http://www.slideshare.net/teachingwithtech

6. Create a PowerPoint with a paragraph on each page and upload to SlideShare. After recording and listening to themselves students can create an MP3 with Audacity and go back to SlideShare and add voice for a SlideCast. fluency

7. Have you tried Voice Thread? http://ed.voicethread.com/pricing/k12/ Voice Thread allows users to post discussions to which others can offer comments. Visit http://voicethread.com/#q.b409.i848804 for more information.

8. Create a Voki and express the written word online with your voice. http://www.voki.com/ Check out The Great Gatsby Voki discussion posted on a wikispace. http://fhswolvesden.wikispaces.com/The+Great+Gatsby+Voki

9. Create your Podcast and then host it on Gcast---Note! As of February 1, 2010 Gcast is no longer accepting any new uploads!!

10. Listen then Read: Download a story mp3 and printable page from Lit2Go. Lit2Go is a free collection of stories and poems in MP3 format. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ Listen, then read and record on your computers audio recorder or with Audacity or at Vocaroo. (Our Mac's Garage Band will work just as well as Audacity or Vocaroo)

11. Use Google Talk or Skype to have students read to a real person, who is not in the room! **