Strengths:
- the teacher includes all students in the discussion
- all students also get to listen to her model and participate at the same time
- she does a great job of talking about the text prior to reading the book. She asks the students, "What do you like to pretend about?"
- She has students point to each word to help them follow along in the text
- she talks about how it is important to model and explains why we talk the way we do during a book, that we use the clues
Weaknesses:
- some students are talking loudly as they read, this could cause the teacher to not be able to hear others, she could have stopped them and asked them to read in a 12 inch voice
- she stops the students a lot while they are reading. this disrupts the flow of the book many times and could hinder their fluency and comprehension if they continue to stop
- she reads quite slowly. I think that she could have read it again with the students at a more natural rate
Developing Fluency:
Strengths:
- addresses that some words look the same, but have very different meaning
- builds a lot of vocabulary by including words that are related to the word of the day
- she uses a visual to help students see the interconnectedness of the words and meanings
- helps to decode words
Weaknesses:
- there is little discussion during this lesson. It is mostly a teacher led recitation where the students just answer her questions that she asks.
- there was not a conclusion of the lesson, tieing together what words they talked about
- the students dont have a chance to write the words, or see them in text. This could help them to know how to use them and where they can be used.
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