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Reading Rockets
- Free, public resource full of activities and information for families to use to support reading instruction
-Reading Rockets has tons of activities to support phonics growth at home for typical and atypical learners. If used properly, reading rockets can foster growth in reading skills at all levels.

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Reading Rockets
- Free, public resource full of activities and information for families to use to support reading instruction
-Reading Rockets has tons of activities to support phonemic awareness growth at home for typical and atypical learners. If used properly, reading rockets can foster growth in reading skills at all levels.

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Reading Rockets
- Free, public resource full of activities and information for families to use to support reading instruction
-Reading Rockets has tons of activities to support fluency at home for typical and atypical learners. If used properly, reading rockets can foster growth in reading skills at all levels.

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Reading Rockets
- Free, public resource full of activities and information for families to use to support reading instruction
-Reading Rockets has tons of activities to support reading comprehension at home for typical and atypical learners. If used properly, reading rockets can foster growth in reading skills at all levels.

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Reading Rockets
- Free, public resource full of activities and information for families to use to support reading instruction
-Reading Rockets has tons of activities to support vocabulary growth at home for typical and atypical learners. If used properly, reading rockets can foster growth in reading skills at all levels.

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Read and Recite Poems
- Children recite nursery rhymes all the time.
- By reciting poems, children practice sentence structure and reading rate. Children also practice cadence and rhythm by reciting poems which help with fluency.

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Letter Recognition on Labels
- Children identify letters on food and toy labels.
- Having children practice identifying letters on labels helps solidify letter recognition. Looking on labels for letters also helps children identify concepts of print such as capital letters and spaces.

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Nursery Rhymes
- Stating and repeating nursery rhymes helps children develop an understanding of speech and sound patterns.
- Children begin to understand rhyme and syllables much easier from nursery rhymes because rhymes and structure are baked in to the poems.

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Utilize Illustrations to Stimulate Mental Imagery
- Read picture books with images that stimulate imagination.
- Reading books that have detailed drawings encourages mental imagery which improves comprehension. Encouraging children to look at the pictures also helps them use pictures for cue and clues which improves comprehension.

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Grocery Store Vocabulary Hunt
- Children must go around the grocery store and learn new vocabulary
-By learning new vocabulary at the grocery store, children pick up common spellings which help reading development. Learning new vocabulary at the grocery store also enhances student's vocabulary growth and overall reading comprehension

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Alphabet Matching
- Children practice letter identification out of order with upper and lowercase letters
- Successful identification of letters is a precursor to later reading success and also helps with the learning and identification of letter sounds as well.
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)
Match Books to Phonics Features
- Linking reading and phonics skills allows children to apply phonics skills from what we just read.
- Part of learning phonics is being able to apply it to real reading, and by matching books to phonics features teachers can focus on specific phonics skills a child or the class may need.
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)

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Choral Reading
- Children read in unison with one another either whole group or small group.
- Choral reading helps children struggling with self-confidence and reading rate build fluency and automaticity.
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)
Audio-Assisted Reading
- Children utilize some sort of audio device to read the book with them.
- Audio-assisted reading helps children struggling with phonemes, graphemes, and reading rate build fluency and automaticity.
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)

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Visual Imagery
- Students take prior knowledge from the book to make a visual representation of a character, event, or setting in the story.
- This activity requires readers to be focused on the text. It also helps children practice creating mental images which can help comprehension
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)
Think-Pair-Share
- Students learn collaboratively by thinking and sharing their ideas about a story
- This encourages children to think independently. This activity also encourages sharing and listening
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)

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Elkonin Boxes
- Children break words down into their individual phonemes using a manipulative and boxes
- Elkonin boxes are used to help children identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds
(Can be modified to simple gestures for students with exceptionalities)
Clapping Out Syllables
- Children clap out syllables to different words
- Clapping out or breaking words into chunks helps with decoding and processing new words
(Can be modified to easier gesture for students with exceptionalities)

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Word Wall
- Help children learn patterns in words
- Provide model for new vocabulary
(Does not need to be modified for students with exceptionalities)
Word Hunt
- Gets children excited about new vocabulary
- Provides context for new vocabulary
(Can be modified to smaller, more controlled space for students with exceptionalities)