Blog+Reflections

Today I started my project. I had three students read the phrases out loud together. Two of my students read together while the other students repeated what they said. They read very loud and I think that they messed each other up by reading so loud, it also slowed them down.
 * Monday, January 24**

Today was similar to yesterday. It seemed that when they messed up on one passage it took a couple slides before they were on track again.
 * Tuesday, January 25**

I talked to the students about reading quieter before we began. They read much more fluently.
 * Thursday, January 27**

We had three days off due to the weather. We read phrases from a new PowerPoint. Next week we will start reading phrases from a passage to see if that flows more smoothly.
 * Thursday, February 3**

I had a sick daughter, the students did not read the passages.
 * Monday, February 7**

This is the first day to read phrases from a passage. Before they read from the Smartboard together as a group, I had them read the passage to me so I could keep track of how many words they read per minute. After reading the phrases they seemed to do better because the phrases flowed together.
 * Tuesday, February 8**

I had a sick daughter, the students did not read the passages.
 * Wednesday, February 9**

The students did great job today! As a group they only missed one phrase.
 * Thursday, February 10**

We finished up with our passage from last week. They read the phrases together and then they read them individually. All three students improved by at least 18 words per minute.
 * Monday, February 14**

Today we started a new passage, the students did a great job, the only missed 3 slides.
 * Tuesday, February 22**

We had a great day, they read all of the slides correctly!
 * Thursday, February 24**

Two weeks left in our data collection. The students are showing great improvement in their reading.
 * Monday, March 7**

We started our last week for collected data. I am anxious the see the improvement in their reading over the last 8 weeks.
 * Monday, March 14**

This was the last day for our reading fluency data collection. The students have improved by reading 15+ words per minute by the end of the week. A few of the students asked if they can keep reading fluency passages because they have enjoyed it and they like seeing their improvement at the end of the week.
 * Thursday, March 17**