You Conduct a Running Record with Charlie, a Fourth-Grade Student

question 25

Essay

You conduct a running record with Charlie, a fourth-grade student, and discover that he is reading at an extremely rapid pace and lacks prosody. You decide to conduct a one-on-one mini-lesson with Charlie and three other students. What will you tell them about reading speed? Also, list and describe two activities that you will conduct with the group to promote enhanced use of prosody.

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Definitions:

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental or well-learned information without effort.

Effortful Processing

The active and conscious effort to encode or store information in memory.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that holds an exact copy of what is seen for a very brief period of time, usually under a second.

Serial Position Effect

A phenomenon in memory research indicating that people tend to remember the first and last items in a series better than the middle items.