Is anyone familiar with the APE program in elementary schools to develop reading fluency in students?
1.) Do you feel that it is helping your students’ fluency? Do you see improvement? Is it a waste of time?
2.) How often do your students practice their APE skills?
3.) Are you required to teach APE?
4.) What are your personal feelings about APE?
5.) What strategies have you tried besides APE to improve students’ reading fluency? How do they compare with APE?
6.) What grade do you teach?
7.) Are students motivated and focused while practicing their APE skills?
8.) Do you feel that the feedback students give one another is helpful or even essential to the program?
9.) How do you teach APE?
10.) Anything you’d like to add?
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Favorite Answer
The children in my first grade class were required to read a passage or a word list, and a partner would record the time and accuracy with a stopwatch. They’d have to read the same passage three times to see how much improvement there was in all three areas.
We did it for about ten minutes per day, and I think there was improvement in general. The kids got to be really fast in reading the (known) passages. Whether there was any comprehension is another question.
Personally I think there are better ways to teach fluency.
