COD 2010 - PS63

Building Up Fluency Through Poetry

Primary and middle school teachers.

2 sessions, start: 20-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Mónica Beatriz Cuello
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 63.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 20 August 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 17 September 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Mónica Beatriz Cuello

Mónica Cuello, graduate teacher of English from ISP “Pbro. Dr. A. M. Saenz”, Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre. She has been a lecturer of Literatura Inglesa II at Universidad Nacional del Litoral and has taught IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. At present she teaches Language and Written Expression I and Language and Culture IV at ISP Saenz. She is also a tutor of English Language III and IV and Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa I and II at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Primary and middle school teachers.
This workshop aims at helping teachers attain these objectives with their students:
• To build up fluency.
• To develop word recognition
• To develop comprehension strategies.
• To improve pronunciation and intonation.
• To appreciate poetry.
• To enlarge vocabulary load.
To meet the aims mentioned before the facilitator will define reading fluency and its importance for reading progress. Secondly, she will analyse the reasons why children fail to read fluently and then briefly explain the Automaticity theory developed by LaBerge and Samuels. Finally the facilitator will introduce a model of fluent reading developed by Rasisnki and provide participants with clear hints to develop these strategies successfully. A selection of poems by different poets will be used. The poems selected are “Cloud Brothers” by Ramson Lomatewama, “Mom´s Allergic” by Mary Sullivan, traditional poems: “I´ve got a dog”, “The Codfish”, “The Centipede”, “Do you Carrot all for me?”, “Michael Finnegan”, “The Goops” by Gelett Burguess, “Animal Groups” by Meish Goldish, “My Brother Bert” by Ted Hughes, “Adventures of Isabel” by Ogden Nash, “Sick” by Shel Silverstein, “Who Are We?”, “A Mystery from History” and “Variety is the Spice” by Benjamin Zephaniah, “Eletelephony” by Laura Richards and “Mystery Object” by Tony Mitton.
The facilitator will briefly present the theoretical framework, eliciting information from the participants. Then she´ll present activities which can be used to meet the aims previously mentioned. Handouts will be provided
Zephaniah, B. (2000) Wicked World. Middlesex, England: Puffin Books.
Alderson J.C. (2001), Assessing Reading, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Carell P., Devine J. and Eskey D. (1998) Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Ruddell R., Ruddell M. & Singer H., (1994) Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, International Reading Association: Newark.

Scholastic, (2004) Perfect Poems. New York: Scholastic Inc..
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