Week 5- Assignment 3

For my running record I asked a fourth grade boy to read a passage for me from the book "The Terrifying Trap of the Bad Mddos Pirates" by Barch Chait. I had been told that this book is rather difficult for the typical fourth grade student. The student that I had tested however was rather advanced and read through the passage quite easily. The following are the running record results:

Name of student: Michoel Jacobs-fourth grade
Total Number of Words-232 words
Error Rate-1:232
Accuracy Rate-98%
Self Correction Rate-1:2

Michoel was able to read the passage extremely fluently only mispronouncing one word and correcting himself twice. As an afterthought I probably should have chosen something harder for this student to read in order to gain a better understanding of his weaknesses. One of the things that Michoel lacked was expression when he read. For instance, there was little difference in his tone of voice when he was reading narration and dialogue. Additionally, when questions were asked he failed to raise his voice slightly at the end of the question to indicate that he was asking something. Although the boy lacked expression, he was able to retell the content of the passage extremely accurately.

Model Lesson-
Learning Goal-Student will enhance his expression while reading.
Procedure-Student will record different conversations taking place among his friends (with everyone's knowledge and consent of course). After listening to these recordings, student will create a sort of humming tune that is identical to the "tune" of which people are talking and record it. Next the student will ask his peers to listen to his "hum" and guess  if he was mimicking an informative sentence, a question, an exclamation, a fast conversation, a slow conversation. The guessers will fill in a questionnaire and will be told after the correct results.
Learning Outcomes-Students will be able to identify that the different tone of voice indicates a different form of communication. These differences enhance conversations and reading, and reading comprehension.