I’m working on fluency!
My strategy is Adjust & Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Text
Secret to Success
Shift reading gears based on your purpose for reading and what you are reading.
What to do
You can use Carver’s (1990) ideas of thinking of reading rates. He compares reading rate to shifting the gears on a car.
Explain:
Language to use:
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)
My strategy is Adjust & Apply Different Reading Rates to Match Text
Secret to Success
Shift reading gears based on your purpose for reading and what you are reading.
What to do
You can use Carver’s (1990) ideas of thinking of reading rates. He compares reading rate to shifting the gears on a car.
Explain:
- Low gears are slow and powerful, whereas higher gears are speedy but are the least powerful.
- First gear, or slowest, most powerful gear, to memorize material
- Second gear to learn material
- Third gear for most of our reading
- Fourth gear, our quickest speed, for skimming and scanning.
Language to use:
- “What might be the rate you use to read this social studies text?”
- “Will you change your rate during this reading?”
- “What speed will you read your favorite chapter book?”
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)