EXPLORING FLIPGRID TO ADDRESS FLUENCY

BOWLING TECHNOLOGY FOR NONTRADITIONAL AND GREEN INDEPENDENT TRADITIONAL INSTRUCTION SCHOOLS MAYRA JANET ANGEL DISHMAN Bowling Green Independent Schools MCGINNIS, ESL Who? 4th and 5th grade ELL students

--I currently teach 26 Level 1 and 2 students in small groups at Dishman. 11 boys and 15 girls. In this group over 9 are spoken. --I collab in classes and have about 25 level 3 and level 4 students. Once students attain a 4.5 on the annual ACCESS test, then they exit the ELL program and enter monitoring status for four years. About 12 languages are spoken within this larger group.

I used Flipgrid primarily with my Level 1 and 2 students. However, in the past I will take a few weeks in the year to give my level 3 and 4 students a chance to make some videos (classroom teachers are highly encouraged to use this tool as well).

*Flipgrid applies to all classrooms and has a plethora of uses

WHY FOCUS ON FLUENCY?

THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF READING INCLUDE , , FLUENCY, , AND COMPREHENSION.

"Fluency is important because it bridges between "A fluent reader who can automatically decode the and comprehension. It allows words can instead give full attention to students time to focus on what the text is saying. They are able to make connections between what comprehending the text. To become proficient they are reading and their own background readers, our students need to become automatic knowledge. Therefore, they are able to concentrate with text so they can pay attention to the on comprehension." meaning." -https://mylearningspringboard.com/what-is- -https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5- reading-fluency-and-why-is-it-important/ components-of-reading/fluency

HOW: USE RESEARCH

HOW DO WE EXPLICITLY TEACH STUDENTS TO READ FLUENTLY?

The compiled data to find three strategies that assist with improving fluency, comprehension, and reading achievement —1)teacher modeling, 2) repeated reading, and 3) progress monitoring.

Using Flipgrid allows teachers to model the reading or how to answer questions, gives students various opportunities to read the same passage, and allows students to self monitor their work while giving teachers records of progress. WHY FLIPGRID?

As an EL teacher, I need to address all 4 domains of WIDA standards: Listening, Speaking, Reading and .

Flipgrid has proved to be an extremely useful tool during this pandemic. We use it to read our library books aloud, to Flipgrid is flexible: used during answer questions about our assignment, and NTI and a normal year to just get to know one another better.

I've used two different groups: englishlearner (for Level 1 EL students -mostly newcomers) and English Learner (for Level 2 and above EL students) T A R G E T 1 : FLUENCY

Students read a paragraph from the text on the video (they love playing with the editing and rerecording themselves). GGoalsGooaallss To help them understand expectations, they are given rubrics that check for expression (prosody), accuracy, and rate. In a regular year, students also chart their growth with reading rate on a graph.

T A R G E T 2 : VOCABULARY

Students take a vocabulary word that they've been working on and use it in a sentence. My students have even created stories with their new vocabulary word.

T A R G E T 3 : COMPREHENSION

Students are given a prompt and answer using a rubric that includes restate, answer, and proof. AMPLE PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES

- Students read nonfiction and fiction text -Interest surveys sent out at the beginning of the year helped with passage selection -Students read each passage 3 times a week for improved times -Students selected their best recording -Students also selected paragraphs from their self-selected books and read from there.

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ADAPTED FROMRubric "TEACHING IN THE VISIBLE LEARNING CLASSROOM"

PotentialReflecting about other Activities? uses for Flipgrid

Readers' Theatre Cloze Passages As a writing tool

Using several students to act Using passages from stories Next year I would really like to out their skit on the video we're working on or "mad explore the PenPal feature of instead of having individual lib" style so students can use Flipgrid and have students students in each video. their own schema and writing to other EL students vocabulary to complete a across the world. passage. Videos could also be made as a pre-writing/brainstorming tool. On a final note: Flipgrid is an excellent way to monitor outside reading COLLABORATIVE C E N T E R F O R LITERACY DEVELOPMENT

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T H A N K Y O U !

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F LUENCY WITH TEX T. (2021). NATIONAL CENTER ON IMPROVING LITERACY. HTTPS://IMPROVINGLITERACY.ORG/BRIEF/FLUENCY-TEXT

HOFFMAN, B. (2018, JANUARY 15). WHAT IS READING FLUENCY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? MY LEARNING SPRINGBOARD. HTTPS://MYLEARNINGSPRINGBOARD.COM/WHAT-IS-READING-FLUENCY-AND-WHY-IS-IT- IMPORTANT/

FISHER, D. (2017). TEACHING LITERACY IN THE VISIBLE LEARNING CLASSROOM : K-5 CLASSROOM COMPANION TO VISIBLE LEARNING FOR LITERACY / DOUGLAS FISHER, NANCY FREY, JOHN HATTIE: K-5 CLASSROOM COMPANION TO VISIBLE LEARNING FOR LITERACY / DOUGLAS FISHER, NANCY FREY, JOHN HATTIE. OSOSCOCO SGCO