FISH Strategy: Ability To Decode Words For Struggling Students

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Does the FISH strategy, enhance the ability to decode words for struggling readers? In order to answer this question, I will be looking at my three research questions I came up with. What prior knowledge and skills are necessary to utilize the FISH strategy? How does the FISH strategy move a student from sight words to decoding? Based on students identified weaknesses, which students will benefit the most from the FISH strategy? I will also be teaching five lessons on decoding words to a small group of struggling first graders. I will be teaching five first graders, three of them receive Tier 3 Title Intervention and the other two do not receive any intervention. I will start off by doing a pre-assessment, where I will keep a running record while the students read Get Wet! By: Ellen Torres to me. I will be taking note on what sight words he or she knows and if they are able to decode the decodable words in the story. From there, I will implement the FISH strategy with the help of the word families. Word families work well for the FISH strategy because the students are able to point out the rime and onset within the word more easily. I also know the first graders have been working on word families in their classroom so it will not be completely new for them. …show more content…

I will establish rules and procedures with my group. I will make sure all of the students understand the rules before moving on. I will review the rules each time we meet so the students understand how to behave while I am teaching them and if he or she does not behave then they will not receive a prize from me. I will be incorporating fun fish theme activities into my lessons to go along with the FISH

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