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Building Fluency: Do It Well & Do It Right
(Grade K-5)
Molly McCabe
Course Description:
This session is conducted by a member of the Riverside County Office Achievement (R-CAT) Team, a group that represents a wealth of knowledge and experience in supporting the goals and vision of No Child Left Behind. R-CAT is a proven assistance model for schools aspiring to improve student achievement. In this model, county office personnel collaborate with schools to align analyzed data and school targets with professional training, resources, and accountability. In this session, a team member will help teachers understand the role of fluency in word recognition, oral reading, silent reading, and comprehension of written discourse. Participants will identify examples of text at a student's frustration, instructional, and independent reading level. Teachers will understand reading fluency from several perspectives: stages of normal reading development, intrinsic characteristics of some reading disorders, and consequences of practice and instruction. Workshop activities include determining reasonable expectations for reading fluency at various stages of reading development, using research-based guidelines.
Molly McCabe
Molly McCabe works as a Teacher on Special Assignment for the Riverside County Office of Education. Her work supports schools on the implementation of scientifically based reading research, data analysis, and research-based reading strategies. She has been the Regional Literacy Consultant for the Reading Excellence Act for the past 2 years and has provided state level professional development on K-3 reading instruction. Ms. McCabe has served on statewide committees to create professional development programs for teaching reading to English language learners. She has also successfully implemented a scientifically based reading curriculum in her classroom.
Co Developer
Mike Barney
Mike Barney has been teaching children and adults since 1989. He has served as a college ESL teacher, K-8 Language Arts teacher, primary teacher, project teacher, mentor teacher, technology mentor, assistant principal, principal, and an independent language arts and technology consultant. He is now a reading coordinator for the Riverside County Office of Education in California, where he works directly with students, teachers, principals, and district administrators to analyze situations and to implement scientifically researched strategies in classrooms through a hands-on process. Mr. Barney has authored two children's books and is recognized as an outstanding literacy teacher by the American Literacy Corporation.
