Master Lee: Fluency is important because it is one of the four main areas that is marked on the speaking exam ( click here for the detailed scoring criteria). Student: Why is fluency important, Master Lee? It was developed by language learning expert, Professor Paul Nation of Victoria University of Wellington and I’ve used it successfully in my classes as well. Thanks again!Ĭomments are closed.In this article I’m going to introduce a secret technique you can use to improve your spoken fluency, as well as your lexical and grammatical accuracy. My personal blog is, and I will be leaving a summary of your post there. Thanks for the insight! If you’d like to view our class blog you can see it at. This really is an fascinating approach to help your students, and I’m interested to see if it helps them with their test scores! I look forward to continuing to read your blog and incorporate your ideas into my own classroom. This software looks like it’s easy enough that any student can quickly pick it up but integrated enough that parents and teachers can access it through iTunes. Wow, what a great idea! I think it’s incredible how you were able to research and recognize an issue your students were having, invent a way to make learning easier and more entertaining, and then watch your idea come to life. I hope you find it useful in your classroom.įor more fluency resources see the Fluency page of Open Court and the Reader’s Theater page for free printable Reader’s Theater. It’s exciting to dream up something and then see it come to fruition. From iTunes, play back for students, parents, and coaches or add to iPod and/or burn to CD.įluency Timer is available only for Macintosh computers (not for iOS devices at this time). Timer counts down and automatically stops after 60 seconds.Ĥ. You can easily share recordings with parents coaches, administrators, and students themselves via the computer, an iPod, a CD, or a web site.ġ. and to keep a record of how students have read throughout the year with automatic time and date stamping. In addition to providing an instant independent work time activity, teachers can use it when assessing students to review student reading to complete running records, DIBELS assessments, etc. It has made reading fluency into a game so that it’s no longer tedious to practice. They ask me if they can reread the same passages over again to try and read them better. After the initial novelty of hearing their own voices played through the computer wears off, students study the reading passage while listening and start to become cognizant of their mistakes. In my own classroom I have been having students read their daily reading passages into the computer and then playing it back and having them listen to themselves reading. There are other voice recorders that exist but none have an integrated timer and all are too complicated for me to quickly teach students to use. Research has shown that having students listen to themselves reading will increase reading fluency over time. įluency Timer is both a timer and a recorder that records students’ one minute fluency readings. I’m excited to announce that I’ve developed and released my very first software application, Fluency Timer, available now in the new Mac App Store or via my own site at.
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