1. Easy CBM – Curriculum Based Measurement Phonics with Focus on Fluency
LEADERS IN LITERACY CONFERENCE
Easy CBM – Curriculum Based Measurement Phonics with Focus on Fluency
Aiken County Public School District
January 13, 2017
Mary Fox
JD Lever Elementary School 2nd Grade
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Power point template opening slide

2. Essential Questions
How do we develop our students to become good communicators?
How might we best measure and track their progress?
How can we use data to drive instruction and intervention when appropriate?
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3. Objectives of Easy CBM Session
Utilize Easy CBM process to guide and enable sound instructional decision making
Establish an objective database and tracking tool for student progress that enables us to discuss intervention where appropriate
Identify and focus on instructional methods and techniques that consistently relate to reading success
Increase familiarity with Web based tools and resources to develop a process approach to teaching Phonics in an impactful way
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4. www.easycbm.com Lite Teacher Deluxe
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5. Easycbm.lite ~ Dashboard
Students
Measures
Reports
Interventions
Resources
Account
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6. Writing, Reading Fluency, Comprehension
COMMUNICATION
Reading Comprehension
Writing
Reading Fluency

7. Weak Fluency – 2nd grade stumble
In order to understand what we read, we have to read at a speed appropriate to get meaning from the text (comprehension)
In 2nd grade reading , your students should be reading WPM at the beginning of the school year and 90 WPM by the end of the year.
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8. Fountas & Pinnell Recommended Oral Reading Rates (Words per Minute)
End of Grade (Level)
Oral Reading Rate (WPM)
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9. Monthly Improvement in Words per minute average of 22 second grade Students
WPM
WPM
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10. Student Comparison in WPM
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11. Three month improvement in WPM – Fluency (student groupings)
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12. Progress Monitoring How can we monitor students’ progress?
Assess fluency regularly and systematically
Listen to students read aloud
Take timed readings and compare performance with norms
Adjust instruction, if necessary, based on:
Progress monitoring assessments
Observational data
Why is monitoring progress important?
Motivating to students
Useful in setting instructional goals for individuals or sub groups
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13. CBM Test Drive
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14. Phonics With Focus on Fluency
There are 1,006,311 words in the English language.
A body of knowledge, known as phonics, consisting of the 26 letters used to symbolize 44 English speech sounds, with approximately 70 common spellings for these speech sounds, will allow us to break the alphabetic code.
Phonemic Awareness is the knowledge and ability to recognize the words and are made up of combinations of individual speech sounds.
Improved fluency comes when these sounds are recognized automatically, blended into a word, which is then given meaning in the text.
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15. Fluency What is reading fluency?
”Ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.”
Report of the National Reading Panel (p. 3-5)
Why is fluency important?
”Fluency provides a bridge between word recognition and
comprehension.”
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), 2001, p.22
Fluent readers are able to focus their attention on
understanding text.
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16. Essential Components of Fluency
Accuracy and Automaticity of Decoding Process
Readers decode words accurately
Readers decode words effortlessly
Reading Speed or Rate
Readers read with an age or grade level appropriate rate
Reading speed is adjusted for purpose and text difficulty
Expression and Prosody
Readers read with smoothness, phrasing, and inflection. Comprehension
Readers comprehend important ideas in connected text.
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17. Setting Up The Hard Drive (Brain/Thought Process)
Reading is based on phonics It is the link between written and spoken language When you see the letter ‘t,’ you know that it makes a /T/ sound. If it is followed by an ‘i’ and an ‘m,’ you know the word is Tim. This is phonics ~ An understanding of phonics is crucial to the ability to: Read Fluently. Phonemic Awareness is recognizing a variety of sound units. Phonemes are small units of language like: ‘sh,’ ‘th,’ ‘ch,’ ‘wh.’
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18. First Things First
What is a Vowel? There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but there are only five vowels: A, E, I, O and U. What about vowels make them so special? A, E, I, O and U are the only ones that represent sounds you can make just by using voice and mouth. Hold short A sound for five seconds. Notice the mouth does not need to move. Phonics Instruction-Should be taught- Systematic and explicit phonics instruction significantly improves students’ reading comprehension.
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19. The Vowels Drive the Words
Rule: When there is one vowel in a word it usually says its short/soft sound. Mark it with a smile. When there are two vowels in a word the first vowel says its’ name and the second is silent. Mark it with a mean face.
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20. Blend-it/Multi-Sensory
Create a word from the blend ladder: ba – t be – t bi – t See the vowel, touch the vowel, hear the vowel, Sweep the word together in chunks with your finger. Complete the word and give it meaning in context of a sentence and literary text.
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21. Fluency-Interventions
What instruction helps develop fluency?
-Speed Drills
-Phrase Reading
-Repeated Reading
-Paired Reading
-Choral Reading
-Reader’s Theater
-Books on Tape
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22. Websites
(Sing, Spell, Read and Write Products)
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23. Questions?
Questions?
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