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I Can Read! Sight Words Set #13
Take the first steps to reading fluency with a set of language arts activities. Kids work on the sight words pretty, ran, so, and out with tracing worksheets and matching games.
Innovative Mobile Apps
Fry Words
Looking for a straightforward app for practicing high-frequency words? You've found one here! This app includes all 1000 Fry words and several ways for kids to practice with each and every one.
Curated OER
Improving Speaking Skills in the Language Classroom
How can you create an "English-free" classroom for your foreign language learners? This year, use some of these strategies to maximize your students' opportunity to communicate in the language.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Baseball: Letter Sound Fluency Game
An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.
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Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers
A great exercise to help students practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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Free Reading: Letter Combination Activities Free Reading
Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Phrase Reading
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.