then…provide additional fluency practice by pairing nonfluent readers with fluent ones.
How My Family Lives in America Group Time
Retell Leveled Reader The American Dream: Coming to the United States
Model how to use the photos and captions to retell pp. 3–6. Then ask students to retell what they learned from The American Dream: Coming to America, photo by photo. Prompt them as needed.
What is this photo mostly about?
Why do you think the author included this photo?
for Fluency
MODEL Tell students that good silent readers block out other noises and pay attention to what they are reading. They also self-correct when they misread or skip a word. Then model, reading aloud pp. 10–11 of the Leveled Reader The American Dream: Coming to the United States. Misread a word or two. Have students notice how you self-correct. Discuss how being good silent readers will help students understand and remember what they read.
PRACTICE Have individuals find a comfortable place to silently reread passages from The American Dream: Coming to the United States. Encourage students to self-correct. Then have partners reread passages aloud. For optimal fluency, they should reread three or four times. As students read, monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback. Assess the fluency of students in this group using p. 193a.
Model how to use the photos and captions to retell pp. 3–6.
for Fluency