So.We.Don’t.Sound.Like.A.Robot.
Have you ever said this to your students? “Boys and girls, practice reading smoothly and with expression so.you.don’t.sound.like.a.ro.bot.” Well, I have. Sometimes I say it all day. If you know me even a little bit as a teacher, you know I’m BIG on fluency development. Even though the majority of my first graders are still sounding out CVC words and beginning to stretch out CVCe words, we talk about fluency a lot! In the beginning, my biggest goal is for the kids to understand what fluency is and learn different “self-help” techniques they can use to grow in their fluency development.
Here are some of the things we’re up to this week as we work on our fluency.
Readers’ Theater: Lights, Camera, Read! We started our first Readers’ Theater on Monday on an adaptation of The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. The repetitive lines allow all students to be successful and they love the fun story events. We will perform this Readers’ Theater to a couple of the older classes during the week of Halloween.
taught it to me. Leave a comment if you know who the author is! I love it! 🙂
Understanding Punctuation: Having discussions about punctuation in writing and reading can help your kiddos read with expression. It helps to really discuss why the author included that particular piece of punctuation in the text. For example, “What is the character excited about?” “Why is the character excited?” “How do the illustrations help you understand that the character is excited?” These are all questions that will really get your students thinking about the story and the emotions behind the text.
We read this very popular book, Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
I love your cafe strategy cards. Are these available on TPT?
Hi Carol,
Thank you! 🙂 I made those cards personally for my classroom. Because of copyright with Daily 5, I'm not able to share them.
Can't you share them as long as you don't charge for them? I know I have seen others on TPT (not as cute as yours) that are free because of the Daily 5 copyright. That is, if you would be willing to share them for free. They are great!
Hi Karlyn,
Thank you so much! You are so sweet. 🙂 It has been said that freebies are allowed but there have also been some issues recently where even freebies have been asked to be removed. That made it seem like a gray area to me, so I have made a personal choice not to share any D5 things for free even, and to just keep them for personal use in my room. I hope you understand. 🙂 Thank you again for your sweet compliments. 🙂
No problem. I understand. Just wishful thinking! 🙂 Your stuff is just too cute! 🙂
In 4th grade I still say that mantra every day!! UGH… haha! Sometimes I even read like that to show the kiddos just how boring it is!! Looks like you are making great strides towards making it better, though! 🙂
Amelia
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