Pair older students with younger students to practice and model reading fluency. Older students can read picture books that have longer sentences and higher vocabulary that challenge older students but are still out of reach for younger students. The older students will get practice with fluency, an...
Movement Burn off that extra energy and help students get the wiggles out. Encourages kids to exercise and get up and move more. Even teachers love to participate with their class. TRY A FEW FOR FREE
PALS activities 1.Partner reading with retell Each student reads a passage aloud for 5min. If an error is made the tutor (the student who is listening) asks for correction. After both students have read, the weaker student states what was read in a 2-min retell. Students earn one point...
Print versions are available for all activities. First Half of the Year Program (55 minutes-per-day, 18 weeks) The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Language Comprehension resources are designed for students who have completed the word recognition program or have demonstrated basic mastery of...
) with a model of knowledge development based on Owen (2007) which sees science primarily as an analytic-symbolic practice, while design as a synthetic real world practice. The authors conclude that, in practice, engineering design requires engaging in a much broader array of epistemic activities...
Invite students who can read the text to read along. 6. Have children read independently by distributing individual copies of the book or another text of similar difficulty. Plan follow-up activities. Shared reading represents a step between reading to children and reading independently by children...
Finally, motivation is important. Explaining the point of fluency work to the students matters. Tim Rasinski strongly encourages activities like Radio Reading and Readers’ Theatre as engaging versions of fluency. Such motivation can be overdone in my opinion (because it can take too much time),...
they will often lack the comprehension to enjoy or understand the reading process. This leads to students taking a dislike to reading and will often create reluctant readers who do not wish to participate in reading activities. This can have negative consequences for themselves and also for their...
When students are familiar with these common word parts, they can tackle multisyllabic words more efficiently.ReadWriteThinkhas an exhaustive list of roots, prefixes, and affixes and offers many related resources for classroom activities.The Brown Bag Teacherhas an awesome round up of online resource...
Of course! In fact, I recommend it –afterstudents have an understanding of the math behind the facts and need to commit them to memory. (And15 in a Rowis a fantastic game to play with flash cards!) But don’t make flash cards your only method for building math fact fluency. Try my...