Winter Wonders-Building Fluency Five Ways in Five Days!

Greetings!

I am just wildly giddy to welcome you to my little corner 

of the blogging world

 as one of the newest members of 

a very special and royal group of teacher-authors!

Today we are honoring our first birthday, and are so glad
you are participating in our blog hop!

I hope you enjoy my post that is chock full of ideas on how
to use poetry in your primary grade classroom to build reading fluency skills!

BUILDING FLUENCY FIVE WAYS IN FIVE DAYS

As you enjoy each stop through our winter wonderland of
instructional ideas and resources, please be sure to...

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When I received the e-mail in December from
Andrea over at Reading Toward the Stars 

inviting me to be a collaborator, it was honestly the
BEST Christmas present ever!  This signature button with a TIARA
made my heart explode with happiness!

 Know that I am honored to be a member of this group of talented and
dedicated reading advocates and educators, and hope that my
upcoming posts will be worthy and helpful to you!

If you missed my November guest post about using Word Nerds  to develop
vibrant vocabulary lessons, you can read it

HERE!

Today I am happy to participate in our blog hop

and share my passion for using poetry

to improve the fluency skills of primary grade students!


Much of the action research project I conducted during my master's program
was devoted to studying the work of Timothy Rasinski, and I continue
to use repeated readings as a means of improving
students' ability to read with automaticity, expression, and
proper cadence or rhythm.  This 2nd edition of his book contains
a gold mine of resources and ideas!

THE IMPORTANCE OF REPEATED READINGS

My free resource was designed with fluency improvement in mind,
and includes three
short, rhymed verses about arctic animals
that primary students can read in a variety of formats,
by themselves or
with a partner, 
and many different times!

CHECK OUT THIS FREE POETRY FLUENCY PACK!

 Click HERE to see it in my store!

FIRST READ--FIND THE RHYMES!

SECOND READ-PARTNER TIME!

THIRD AND FOURTH READ--

POETRY NOTEBOOKS & PLAY PRACTICE

FIFTH READ--STUFFED READING BUDDIES

Be sure you are sharing a variety of quality trade books aloud with your students
and incorporating music into your daily oral language activities as well!

LITERATURE LINKS & MUSICAL MOMENTS

Click HERE for the link to The Learning Station video!

If you like to integrate writing
with your poetry studies, then you might like this related literacy
pack that has three more original verses about polar
animals, as well as ten task card prompts!

INTEGRATE WRITING!

FICTION AND NON-FICTION WRITING 

As always, thanks for stopping by and sharing my story! May you continue to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, and teach your children well! PIN FOR LATER

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Warm Regards,