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I came up with this Great back to school get to know you idea the other day. This year I am now teaching 4th grade and have come up with a super great idea for kids to learn others names and meet new people. Before the year starts I am going to collect 26 mini water bottles. You can find these at Kroger or Walmart . Kroger brand is 2.99 for 24 bottles or the brand below is usually 3 for 10. I have stopped at the craft stores and collected, letter beads, sprinkles , glitter and other little trinkets that will fit inside the bottle. Before the kids come I am going to place each students first name inside the bottle. with glitter and other fun things. Then I am going to seal them and place a number on the bottom. I will place a name bottle on each students desk and provide a list of student names on the overhead or board for students to reference. Each student will have to try to figure out which classmates bottle they have. This may be harder for the younger grades but the older grades

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Fluency Two sets of fluency poems level 1 and 2. Repeated reading and fun read aloud or center work. fluency phrases and words. Easy way to build fluent readers using fun poems. Give new poem each week and test students at the end of the week if they pass it move them on. Fluency Defining Reading Fluency For the most part reading fluency can be defined as the ability to read text easily, quickly and expressively without making much effort and with little difficulty comprehending the meaning of the text. When evaluating a child's overall reading fluency, there are two different types of fluency that are being looked at: oral reading fluency and silent reading fluency. Oral Reading Fluency Much as it sounds, oral reading fluency refers to how fluently a child can read out loud. This type of fluency is less about how well a child understands and remembers what he is reading and much more about how he decodes the text. If your child is a fluent oral reader, he should be a

Phonics bundle includes amazing literacy center resources. Soft C and hard C and G. Words with S and Z , Oi , Blends Th, Sh, Ch, Bosy R teams, Long E and Long A. Each comes with word sorts Readings Worksheets Posters and many more. Over 100 pages of resources. Phomics Bundle

Sight words Are they that important ye or no? I think this is the one thing that lower grades need to master and have solid before moving to second grade. If you wonder how important these words are just take any book you own and start highlighting all the sight words you see on one page. You will be amazed to see how much ends up being highlighted.  Below I am going to list different fun activities you can do with your sight words and places to find resources. If you have any other ideas please leave a comment. What are sight words? Edward W. Dolch developed lists of the 220 most frequently used words in children's books. Form 50 to 75% of the text consisted of the words he put on his lists which became known as the Dolch words' lists. A reader who knows the Dolch words will recognize the majority of the words in a typical selection. Dolch also developed a list of 95 commonly used nouns. Dolch sight words should be recognized on sight (instantly) for reading to pro