Imagine that your school’s administrators recently reported disappointing results on the state standardized test.

• What techniques will you recommend to the grade level team to support children’s automaticity, speed, prosody, and high frequency word knowledge? Provide examples.
• What are some specific strategies you might use to scaffold reading comprehension? What are some things you are already doing in your classroom that reflect evidence-based practices for teaching comprehension? Explain and provide specific examples to support your response.
• What are some ways that you would suggest to increase the students’ vocabulary?

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Children’s atomicity, speed, prosody, and high frequency of word power is critical for their performance.  Albino (2017) highlights that atomicity, prosody, and word frequency rotates around word identification and comprehension. Difficulties in automatic word recognition, word frequency, prosody, and speeds affected learners’ ability to comprehend what they read.  Consequently, students lag their peers, resulting…