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Get a set of FREE decodable books that teach short vowels and simple digraphs! These are perfect for beginning readers!
This list of decodable books features texts with entertaining stories that students will enjoy reading as they practice phonics skills.
In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]
If you have a dyslexic student, developing a meaningful, robust IEP for dyslexia is essential. Here are tips for dyslexia tests and writing IEP goals for dyslexia.
Learn how to use decodable passages in guided reading in kindergarten and first grade. Then, use the FREE decodable passages to get started.
Discover the mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century codex with undeciphered text and unique illustrations. Explore its history, theories,
Discover the fun of our Epic Fall Jokes Cryptogram! Perfect for teachers and homeschooling parents, this activity combines humor with a brain-teasing puzzle where letters are substituted with symbols.
Get a set of FREE decodable books that teach short vowels and simple digraphs! These are perfect for beginning readers!
Incorporating decodable readers and the science of reading into your teaching gives your students the foundation to become confident readers.
In today's post I'll cover how to teach decoding strategies to struggling readers. I'll share some ideas for teaching decoding strategies, provide free strategy menus and cards, and discuss how we can use text-based teaching conversations to support our students.
7 activity ideas to help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students become better at decoding words with prefixes and suffixes.
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I use these passages with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade struggling readers to specifically focus on the skill of decoding multisyllable words. I found that many resources out there for decoding these words had students reading them in isolation instead of in text. My students need work on comprehension and vocabulary as well, so I created this resource to give them context for the words they are decoding. My ESL students especially benefit from the context and picture clues to help them understand what they are reading. There are both fiction and nonfiction passages included in this resource We practice breaking words into syllables by “scooping” them or drawing a curved line underneath. For these passages, I have modeled the first two for the students to show how to split the words and record them in the chart. This resource can be used as an assessment, for practice, or even for a simple homework. The passages are short and the activity should not take long to do. Passages include: The Railroad Racket The Paperback Mishap A Charming Garden I Know It's Spring! Teacher at the Beach Jigsaw Puzzles My Favorite Holiday An Interesting Career The Unfriendly Centipede The Ugly Centipede Moving Day The Soccer Game The Stolen Laptop The Stolen Laptop Part 2 The Frequent Visitor A Devastating Wildfire Field Day Vitamin D Manifest Destiny Tornado Warning The Surprise Envelope Anyone Can Be President Safe Choices on the Internet Cold Temperature Clothing Superheroes Save the Day Sleepover Party The Thankful Game My Pet Hermit Crab Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you again!
This free printable cryptogram features a quote by Thomas Edison, in which different letters are substituted for the correct ones. We’ve provided a couple letters to get you started – see if you can…
These two I Can Read It books provide decodable practice in two free printable pdf's that you can print and use with your students.
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Repeated reading is a research-based instructional strategy with the goal of increasing decoding automaticity skills. The goal of repeated reading is not for students to become “fast readers”. Rather, we want students to read the words accurately, with intonation, and at a rate that is comparable to the speed of oral language. This resource was created to provide a rereading routine for students who would benefit from increasing accurate and automatic fluency skills. It is designed to be led by older students or volunteers, who assist younger students in the rereading routine. While it can be implemented as often as desired, we used this rereading routine three times a week for 6 weeks. Each student who participated in the fluency friends rereading routine was paired with a fifth-grade student who volunteered the first 10 minutes of their recess time. The older students used the assembled toolkits to walk their readers through the day’s rereading routine by following the instructions on the card. Each toolkit contained all of the materials needed for the lessons. This resource is designed to be used with passages or texts that you, the teacher, supply each week, based on the student’s decoding skills and needs. Please note, that no texts or passages are included with this resource. It can be used in conjunction with whatever word recognition curriculum, program, or texts you use. What does the rereading routine look like? (We chose the routine to take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You can edit and choose the days of the week that work best for your classroom.) Monday: Modeling Day. Volunteers led the student through a series of modeling exercises. They first read the passage to the student, modeling fluent reading. Next, they did a choral reading with the student. Last, they scooped the sentences in the passage for the student, and practiced fluent phrasing with the student. If time allowed, the student reread the passage an additional time. Wednesday: Fluency Fun Day. During Day 2, peers and students used novelty reading tools to reread the passage in engaging ways! Flashlights, microphones, mini cards, and reading pointer wands are used throughout the lesson. This rereading day is designed to be motivating and encourage as much rereading practice of the week’s passage as possible. The card for Day 2 acts as a "choice menu" to practice rereading the passage or text several times. Friday: The final day of each week is called “Beat Your Time Day”. A highlighter or pencil, and a sand timer is used on day 3. The student reads the passage. At the end of one minute, the peer leader draws a line after the last word read. The routine above is repeated, and the student tries to read farther than he or she did the first time. If time allows, the reader tries to read even more than his or her second reading. When can this routine take place? Fluency Friends is a perfect routine to fit into a center time, intervention block, before school, during a designated "no new teaching time", or during small group time. It's also a great way for parents to help their children with rereading practice at home! What grade(s) is this resource designed for? You can use this resource and rereading routine for ANY student who is reading connected text! Kindergarteners who are reading short decodable passages, first and second grade students, and upper elementary students who could benefit from increased rereading practice will love this routine! Thank you so much for learning more about Fluency Friends! -Christina DeCarbo Miss DeCarbo, Inc. Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved.
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Here are my must known tips for visiting the popular town of Sintra. These useful Sintra tips will help you have an efficient visit and avoid making mistakes. Beautiful Sintra Portugal is the most popular day trip from Lisbon. But the town is pure chaos. You need a clear strategy and plan of attack to make the most of your time in Sintra.
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These I CAN READ letter sound decodable sheets are perfect for our students who are just learning or struggling to identify and blend letter sounds quickly and automatically. Each letter sound is introduced or reviewed in a sequence that promotes blending and segmenting words as soon as possible. Ri...
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