Review the Handout: Fluency: Chunking. This activity teaches students that connected texts are composed of meaningful phrases that can be read fluently.
The Handout: Chunking Passage has been provided as an example for you to see how a text can be divided into meaningful chunks.
Chunking Passage
- Sample passage consisting of twenty-three chunks.
Lesson: Fluency
- A step-by-step lesson in chunking that teaches students that connected text is composed of meaningful phrases that can be read fluently.
Source: Second Grade Online Teacher Reading Academy
Narrator
The Handout: Chunking is another lesson for students who continue to struggle with the adapted Partner Reading lesson. In this lesson, text is divided into meaningful phrases, or chunks, prior to students reading. When implementing this lesson, remember to model fluent reading while students follow along and emphasize chunking phrases together to enhance meaning.