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This syllable worksheet guides your student through syllable counting practice at the beach! This syllable worksheet features a black-and-white beach scene, with different words scattered throughout. Students will count the syllables in each word and, using a coloring key, fill in the white space with the corresponding color.

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This syllable worksheet guides children through syllable counting practice. This syllable worksheet presents learning in a fun way, with coloring and pictures.

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In this activity, students are to isolate initial phonemes in words. The students will be presenting/looking for their own items and give the initial sound of the object.

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What better way to better learn phonemes by making it into a game?

This activity works on students matching initial sounds with different cards.

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Here is a multitude of activities in teaching students phonemic awareness. This link provides activities for students in the K-8

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A sing-a-long video on helping kids understand Digraphs in a fun and creative way.

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Digraphs | Phonics Song for Children | Phonemic Awareness | Jack Hartmann

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A website that provides multiple activities on learning Phonics. Some activities include antonyms and vowel sounds, consonant blends, digraphs, and rhymes.

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Another website that is filled with phonic worksheets. This resource ranges from consonants and vowels, beginning consonants, ending consonants, blends, digraphs and trigraphs, silent e, long vowels, r-controlled vowels, and advanced phonics.

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Here, you will find free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading. These free worksheets are printable and designed to accommodate any lesson plan for reading that includes phonics. Conveniently organized by the skills covered, these worksheets come with answer keys. You may print the worksheets from either PDF or JPEG versions and provide them to your children or students.

Each free phonics worksheet also includes a lesson extension - extra activities to help students learn specific skills taught on the worksheet or review material already learned. You will also find an instructional guide with tips for getting the most from phonics instruction as well as a collection of frequently asked questions.

Diphthongs, au, aw, all & al

These free phonics worksheets may be used independently and without any obligation to make a purchase, though they work well with the excellent Phonics DVD and Phonics Audio CD programs developed by Rock 'N Learn. You are not required to register in order to use this site. These free phonics worksheets and lesson extensions are provided to you compliments of Rock 'N Learn with our sincere desire that they assist students and raise awareness of other Rock 'N Learn programs.

Phonics is a tried and proven method for learning to read. Although English is not purely a phonetic language, phonics is an important tool for beginners learning to read the language. Due to the effectiveness of phonics-based instruction, more public and private schools have emphasized phonics instruction in recent years. Parents who teach their children at home also frequently report satisfaction with instructional materials for phonics, based on the emails we receive.

Within this collection of 81 free phonics worksheets, students practice learning vowels, beginning consonants, ending consonants and plurals, beginning blends, ending blends, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, R-controlled vowels, diphthongs, ph and gh, silent consonants, and more.

We would love to hear from you about ways that you have used our free phonics worksheets in your home or classroom. Plus, we always appreciate suggestions for improving these worksheets or improving this site.

To supplement phonics instruction, you may find the Sight Words DVDs from Rock 'N Learn helpful. These DVDs cover over 180 sight words, including all pre-primer, primer and first grade Dolch words as well as many of the top sight words from Fry's list.

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Introducing... Free Rock 'N Learn preschool videos on YouTube www.youtube.com/rocknlearn New content added weekly. Subscribe to our free channel for updates. Here, you will find free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading. These free worksheets are printable and designed to accommodate any lesson plan for reading that includes phonics.

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A little help from parents can go a long way. Here is a website that gives parents the opportunity to help their child create a mindset of a love for reading

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To become skilled readers, children must have strong base in phonics. Phonics helps students to quickly sound out a word. After enough practice, reading sounds becomes automatic.

By 3rd grade, children are expected to read grade level text about 90% accurately, meaning if students are stumbling over sounding out words then they will be unable to remember the meaning of the story. Phonics at this grade becomes very sophisticated, sometimes called "Word Study", and involves sounding out long words ( opponent, advantage), identifying silent letters, and learning complex spelling patterns (moist ure, creat ure, fixt ure) to help improve their writing.

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Third Grade Phonics Skills | 3rd Grade Phonics Activities

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To become skilled readers, children must have strong base in phonics. Phonics helps students to quickly sound out a word. After enough practice, reading sounds becomes automatic. By 3rd grade, children are expected to read grade level text about 90% accurately, meaning if students are stumbling over sounding out words then they will be unable to remember the meaning of the story.

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Four critical concept activities that include both resources and powerful instructional video strategies.

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FastTrack Phonics - Success for All Foundation

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FASTTRACK PHONICS 2ND EDITION Fast and Fun Mastery of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics for Grades 1 and 2 Each day includes instruction that develops phonics and phonemic-awareness skills through fun, fast-paced, and systematic FastTrack lessons. Colorful mnemonic picture cards, Alphie and Cami puppets, rhymes, chants, media, and games bring the lessons to life. The many […]

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An online game that combines vocabulary pictures with their definition. This website also includes a number of vocabulary games that range from word match ups, word walls, word search, etc.

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Fossils Vocabulary - Match Up Game - Grade 3

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Fossil - the remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived in another geologic age. They have been preserved in earth or rock..

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A variety of phonics worksheets that includes reviews and quizzes for 3rd - 12th.

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50+ Phonics worksheets for 3rd Grade on Quizizz | Free & Printable

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Phonics Worksheet For 3rd Grade | Free Printable Worksheets by Quizizz

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Six Activities that make Vocabulary a fun learning experience for the little ones. Not only does this site provide information on these activities, but it also includes templates to make this games come to life.

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These 6 simple and easy-to-use vocabulary activities are perfect for 3rd and 4th grade students. Use them with any word list.

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Another way to improve vocabulary and even to expand it, is to learn synonyms. This worksheet replaces specific words with better words

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Students improve sentences by replacing dull words with better words from a word bank. Free | Worksheets | Vocabulary | Grade 3 | Printable

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Here are some activities that focus on creativity as a class, and creativity in the student's writing abilities.

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Vocabulary may not be the most exciting lesson to teach, but with a little creativity and innovation, you can easily turn 3rd grade vocabulary lessons into fun activities that your students will be excited about.

Getting your students interested in learning vocabulary can be an undertaking. These 3rd grade vocabulary activities will help your students with memorization and retention of new words and expand their current vocabulary. Try out these techniques in your classroom and help your students build a skill set that will last them a lifetime.

Whether it's a game, a word wall or a storytelling activity, all of these ideas will help your students learn and understand new words. These activities are so fun that they might forget they're even learning vocabulary!

Vocabulary Activity #1: Vocab Bag Toss

Vocab bag toss is an interactive and entertaining way to learn new vocab words.

There are a few materials you'll need for this game. Gather a sturdy piece of poster board, some writing materials and a few bean bags.

How to Create the Game

1. Make a 2×2 grid on the poster board.

2. Write the following in the different squares on the grid:

3. Gather the bean bags. If you can't snag some bean bags from the P.E. teacher, bean bags can easily be made from plastic sandwich bags filled with rice or beans.

Now that you have created the game, get your vocabulary list ready and have your students line up.

Give each student a vocabulary word and have them toss the bean bag onto the board. Whatever action they land on they have to do. If they miss the board, they can toss again or move closer to the board.

You can make the game more competitive by splitting your class into teams and awarding points for accurately showing, writing or telling the class what the vocabulary word means.

By associating a fun and physical activity with the vocab words, your students are more likely to remember what the words mean and in what context.

Vocabulary Activity #2: Create a Synonym Wall

This activity is another physical game that will help your students associate vocabulary words with their synonyms.

Synonyms can bring better understanding to what a word means. Your students may not know how to define a new vocabulary word right off the bat, but they might know what a synonym for that word means.

For this activity you'll need a poster board or blank wall in your classroom, smaller cards (index cards will work fine) and velcro, push pins or sticky tack.

Depending on your class size, assign each student a few vocabulary words and have them look up synonyms for those words. Have them write their vocabulary word on one card and a synonym on another.

Collect the cards and line them up out of order on two separate sides of a table.

Your students will take turns sticking a vocab word to the synonym wall and matching the word with its corresponding synonym.

Not only will this push students to remember what the definition and meaning of the vocab word is, but it will help them retain the meaning through word association.

Keep your synonym wall on display and continue adding to it every time you give them a new vocabulary list.

Vocabulary Activity #3: Make this Sentence More Interesting Using Your Vocabulary Words

With this activity, you will have your students take a simple sentence and make it more interesting by swapping out words for vocabulary words.

This is another activity centered around synonyms, but it shows how simply choosing a different word, can change how interesting a sentence is.

Before you begin this activity, write a list of sentences, cut them up, put them in a bag or a hat and have students draw sentences at random. Make sure you create sentences that you know can be made better using the vocabulary list.

Make the sentences as complex or as simple as you would like, but the point is to be able to replace words in the sentence with the right vocab word. Below are a few examples:

Vocab words: ancient; elegant

Original sentence: "The necklace that Emily found was very old and fancy"

Revised sentence: "The necklace that Emily found was ancient and elegant"

Vocab words: pleasant; tackle

Original: Tyler decided that the weather was nice enough to work on his gardening project.

Revised: Tyler decided that the weather was pleasant enough to tacle his gardening project.

By having your students think critically about which words are the best to switch out and the vocabulary words would work best in their place, they will build both creative and descriptive writing skills.
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5 Activities to Improve 3rd Grade Vocabulary - Studentreasures Blog

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Vocabulary lessons aren't usually seen as being "fun," but that can change. Here are 5 fun activities that will improve 3rd grade vocabulary.

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Browse our printable 3rd Grade Vocabulary Lesson Plans resources for your classroom. Download free today!

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This is a great resource for fluency as it provides multiple passages and comprehension questions that are ready to be printed and used!

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We've got six reading specific activities to use for students to strengthen their reading skills. These could be used in both a school setting and a home setting with the students parents.

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Guidelines for instruction

Provide children with opportunities to read and reread a range of stories and informational texts by reading on their own, partner reading, or choral reading.

Introduce new or difficult words to children, and provide practice reading these words before they read on their own.

Include opportunities for children to hear a range of texts read fluently and with expression.

Suggest ideas for building home-school connections that encourage families to become involved actively in children's reading development.

Encourage periodic timing of children's oral reading and recording of information about individual children's reading rate and accuracy.

Model fluent reading, then have students reread the text on their own.

What students should read

Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a high degree of success. Therefore, your students should practice rereading aloud texts that are reasonably easy for them – that is, texts containing mostly words that they know or can decode easily. In other words, the texts should be at the students' independent reading level.

A text is at students' independent reading level if they can read it with about 95% accuracy. If the text is more difficult, students will focus on word recognition and will not have an opportunity to develop fluency.

The text your students practice rereading orally should also be relatively short – probably 50-200 words, depending on the age of the students. You should also use a variety of reading materials, including stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Poetry is especially well suited to fluency practice because poems for children are often short and they contain rhythm, rhyme, and meaning, making practice easy, fun, and rewarding.

Model fluent reading

By listening to good models of fluent reading, students learn how a reader's voice can help written text make sense. Read aloud daily to your students. By reading effortlessly and with expression, you are modeling for your students how a fluent reader sounds during reading.

Repeated reading

After you model how to read the text, you must have the students reread it. By doing this, the students are engaging in repeated reading. Usually, having students read a text four times is sufficient to improve fluency. Remember, however, that instructional time is limited, and it is the actual time that students are actively engaged in reading that produces reading gains.

Have other adults read aloud to students. Encourage parents or other family members to read aloud to their children at home. The more models of fluent reading the children hear, the better. Of course, hearing a model of fluent reading is not the only benefit of reading aloud to children. Reading to children also increases their knowledge of the world, their vocabulary, their familiarity with written language ("book language"), and their interest in reading.

Activities for students to increase fluency

There are several ways that your students can practice orally rereading text, including student-adult reading, choral (or unison) reading, tape-assisted reading, partner reading, and readers' theatre.

Student-adult reading

In student-adult reading, the student reads one-on-one with an adult. The adult can be you, a parent, a classroom aide, or a tutor. The adult reads the text first, providing the students with a model of fluent reading. Then the student reads the same passage to the adult with the adult providing assistance and encouragement. The student rereads the passage until the reading is quite fluent. This should take approximately three to four rereadings.

Choral reading

In choral, or unison, reading, students read along as a group with you (or another fluent adult reader). Of course, to do so, students must be able to see the same text that you are reading. They might follow along as you read from a big book, or they might read from their own copy of the book you are reading. For choral reading, choose a book that is not too long and that you think is at the independent reading level of most students. Patterned or predictable books are particularly useful for choral reading, because their repetitious style invites students to join in. Begin by reading the book aloud as you model fluent reading.

Then reread the book and invite students to join in as they recognize the words you are reading. Continue rereading the book, encouraging students to read along as they are able. Students should read the book with you three to five times total (though not necessarily on the same day). At this time, students should be able to read the text independently.

Tape-assisted reading

In tape-assisted reading, students read along in their books as they hear a fluent reader read the book on an audiotape. For tape-assisted reading, you need a book at a student's independent reading level and a tape recording of the book read by a fluent reader at about 80-100 words per minute. The tape should not have sound effects or music. For the first reading, the student should follow along with the tape, pointing to each word in her or his book as the reader reads it. Next, the student should try to read aloud along with the tape. Reading along with the tape should continue until the student is able to read the book independently, without the support of the tape.

Partner reading

In partner reading, paired students take turns reading aloud to each other. For partner reading, more fluent readers can be paired with less fluent readers. The stronger reader reads a paragraph or page first, providing a model of fluent reading. Then the less fluent reader reads the same text aloud. The stronger student gives help with word recognition and provides feedback and encouragement to the less fluent partner. The less fluent partner rereads the passage until he or she can read it independently. Partner reading need not be done with a more and less fluent reader. In another form of partner reading, children who read at the same level are paired to reread a story that they have received instruction on during a teacher-guided part of the lesson. Two readers of equal ability can practice rereading after hearing the teacher read the passage.

Readers' theatre

In readers' theatre, students rehearse and perform a play for peers or others. They read from scripts that have been derived from books that are rich in dialogue. Students play characters who speak lines or a narrator who shares necessary background information. Readers' theatre provides readers with a legitimate reason to reread text and to practice fluency. Readers' theatre also promotes cooperative interaction with peers and makes the reading task appealing.

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Fluency: Instructional Guidelines and Student Activities

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The best strategy for developing reading fluency is to provide your students with many opportunities to read the same passage orally several times. To do this, you should first know what to have your students read. Second, you should know how to have your students read aloud repeatedly.

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An extremely fun way to get students engaged in reading. Reading Theatre brings the movie to the class, and this time the students are the main characters

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An online activity that works with sight words through a game of Bingo. This website also has a variety of other games and specific activities that work on different subjects.

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Master Dolch sight words with Sight Word Bingo - 3rd grade edition! Win BINGO by identifying the correct sight words. Can you collect all 20 Bingo Bugs?

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The best way for students to capture fluency is to provide them with fluency activities on the daily. This resource provides activities that we can use on the daily to make sure students are comprehending

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Adrienne Teaches - teaching tips, classroom ideas, and lesson resources from a 3rd grade classroom

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My Mental Journey

I have had a love-hate relationship with fluency. As a third grade teacher, my students are subject to end of year, high-stakes testing for the first time. Fluency is not tested on these exams, students have all day to read the passages and test if they want. Comprehension is key. Not just on the end of year tests, but all year long comprehension is what is assessed and measured for mastery. Fluency has just been something we've done on the side...an add-on. I mean, third grade is the year students move from "learning to read" to "reading to learn", right?

Wrong. Well, at least for most of my kiddos. See, this year I have a group of very hard-working students who happen to be below grade level or the low end of on grade level. What I have found is that even though they can take as long as they would like on grade level comprehension assessments, they don't. Either they don't want to be the last one working or they just flat out lack the stamina. Fluency has been a crucial part of my reading instruction this year to help students close the gap while they are building stamina with testing. If they can read the words fluently and with accuracy, they will be less frustrated and they can spend more time making meaning from text since less time will be spent decoding.

Fluency Centers

At the beginning of the school year, I had a great idea for fluency centers. I assigned the students partners based on the DRA assessment. I planned an elaborate schedule for when partners would visit the fluency center during Daily 5, asked for timers to be sent in, set up the center with directions, and had the students glue passages into their reading notebook for practice. "What a great idea," I thought; "This is going to be wonderful," I thought; "Other teachers will use this idea for sure," I thought; and then, reality hit. There I was in the middle of a reading group and all of a sudden, timers. Timers chiming and buzzing and beeping and absolutely driving.me.crazy. So, I came up with a new rule, you have 5 seconds to turn off the timer after it starts buzzing. Nope, that didn't help, I couldn't do it, I shut the center down.

So, I invested all this time in creating fluency centers, partnering the students, and setting up a routine to find that it just didn't work for me. That's okay, teachers are like kids, we're all different and one thing won't work for everyone. I am just not the kind of teacher that can stay focused and deal with loud beeping noises interrupting the flow of my small groups. I knew I didn't want to stop fluency, like I said above, my students this year are still learning to read and they need it. I started squeezing in 5-10 minutes of fluency after our whole group lesson and quickly realized that we had found what works. After daily five, students grab their reading notebook and sit in their "fluency seat", next to their fluency parter. I set the egg timer on the Promethean Board for 1 minute (30 seconds in between each measure) and we get started with our routine.

Our Routine

- Student pairs are numbered "student one" and "student two". The students have one minute to read as many words as they can. Student one reads the first word, student two the second word, and they continue to alternate words for the minute. Afterward, they have 30 seconds to record their progress on the graph on the back of the word list before we move on. If we have time we will do the word list again, with student two reading the first word so both students have an opportunity to read all of the words. (1-2 minutes of practice, 30 sec.-1 min. of transition time)

2. Phrase List - Students do the same procedure as above. They have one minute to read alternating phrases and then 30 seconds to graph on the back. We will do it a second time with student two reading first if we have time, if not, student two will read first next time. We practice reading the phrases properly (as questions, statements, or exclamations). (1-2 minutes of practice, 30 sec.-1 min. of transition time)

3. Passages- I taught my students how to do running records. While one partner reads, the other tracks the errors. At the end of one minute, they calculate the amount of words read correct, graph their results, and switch. (2 minutes of practice, 1 min. of transition time)
TOTAL TIME: 6-9 minutes a day (once students are trained), with less time if you choose not to do all 3 measures in a day.

Our New Fluency Center

One day, after working on a passage for over a week, I decided to model how to do a running record again. I read for a minute, using the document camera, and the students tracked my errors. I ended up getting much farther in the passage than any of them had and by the time the minute was over they were much more interested in hearing the rest of the story than pointing out my mistakes (which speaks volumes). I was so suprised that after daily practice on the same passage for over a week, none of them had actually finished reading the passage. That's when I decided to bring back the fluency center.

So...I know I just did all that over-the-top ranting about how timers drive me crazy and now I'm bringing back the fluency center. I had to think of a way to make it work. I decided that during their time at the fluency center, students would just read lesiurely. Fluency doesn't always have to be timed, studies show that repeated readings are one of the best ways to build fluency. At the center, students take their time to read through their passage, phrase list, word list, and weekly poem. The goal is to simply get to the end of each measure to build context and familiarity. Since my students view timed fluency as a race, they love this extra practice time. One of my kids said they are practicing to win the challenge. The best part is, they were talking about beating their own score and not their partner.

My class has grown in leaps and bounds since we first started squeezing in fluency after our whole group lesson. I measure many of my kids with formal fluency assessments through the Aims Web program every other week. Most of the students I track were below or near their personal fluency target and now, they are close, at, or above. If fluency is a concern for your class as well, I really encourage you to put some practice in place daily or multiple times a week. It really does make a difference.

Check out some of the free fluency resources listed below. I just did a quick google search to find these, so I'm sure there are many more options available to you. I know that many teachers also sell fluency phrases and passages by grade level on TPT.

What are you thoughts about fluency in the upper grades?

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How We Do Fluency in 3rd Grade - Adrienne Teaches

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The classic read a story, answer the questions activity. Students read a story and simply answer questions regarding the story.

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The printable reading comprehension worksheets listed below were created specially for students at a 3rd grade reading level. Each file includes a fiction or non-fiction reading passage, followed by a page of comprehension questions.

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After reading a story use your hand to help you remember the most important elements of the story.

1. Characters – Who was in the story?

2. Setting –  Where did the story take place?

3. Events – What happened in the story?

4. End – How did the story end?

5. Your Take – What was your favorite part?

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A K-W-L chart is a popular method for teachers to hook their students and get them thinking right away about a story they’re about to read.

This is best used for nonfiction reading, or books about facts. You don’t have to write this all down, these questions can be used when talking with your child as they read. It’s quick and easy but will get your child diving into the topic they’re learning.

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Academic Success Center - Reading Strategies: The KWL Method

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Howdy! Welcome to AcademicSuccessCenter: Reading Strategies: The KWL Method. Learn more about Texas A&M University at www.tamu.edu.

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Graphic organizers let students process information both visually and spatially, which encourages them to internalize the material.  The very nature of graphic organizers enables students quite literally to see the connections in what they are reading. Here are different organizers to help

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An activity that is a bit “out of the box” and allows for children to express their creativity.

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Transformation Drawing and Writing Station: 90 Squiggle Stories

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Engage creativity with the Transformation Drawing and Writing Station: 90 Squiggle Stories. Inspire students to create and write with fun prompts!