Fluency

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Helpful Everyday Word Work Ideas for Primary Students

Hey there! Thanks so much for stopping by! I am a certified word nerd! I love words and working with words. Word work is an important part of our students learning to read and write! Here are some helpful everyday word work ideas and spelling activities to help your students! Word Work Idea: Word Sorts I love doing word sorts with my students! A word sort is a group of words that your students sort into groups using some sort of criteria. There are so many ways that you can do word sorts. My favorite is to start with an

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Mentor Text for How to Read Punctuation Marks with a Freebie!

This week I am going to be teaching my kiddos about How To Read Punctuation as part of my Reading Fluency instruction.  I have the perfect book as a mentor text! If you have never read Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka, you really need to! There is a lonely little boy who is approached by an outgoing new friend.  Their conversation is short, sweet, and to the point! Each page only has one or two words and punctuation marks, so it makes it a perfect book to practice How to Read Punctuation Marks in your Reading Fluency lessons!   It is also a

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