Welcome! Waddle right into The Primary Pack  rookery this week and enjoy our explosion of penguin products that we hope will make your classroom a more "polar" and pleasant place to be this month!   I am linking up with Jenn from Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten and Ashley from One Sharp Bunch to offer a fun freebie that I created a LONG time ago, but that still packs a one-two punch when it comes to a rhyming good time!   Your young readers will love the craft stick puppet patterns included in this pack and can use them to act out the poems about each animal.  I make the poems "pocket-size" by printing 2-4 per page, and keep them on a ring at our literacy stations for easy-access. I also print each poem full-size so that each student can highlight the rhyming pairs of words they find, re-read the poem to a partner, and then take it home to read it again to a parent or sibling for fluency practice! ......

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 ...