Blending and segmenting Finger Tapping Trick ................................................................................................................................................ 261 Palm the Syllables Trick ........................................................................................................................................... 263 Roller Coaster Trick ................................................................................................................................................. 265 Rubber Band Trick .................................................................................................................................................... 266 Strategies for teachers ...................................................................................................................267 Letter sounds and shapes Pronunciation guide ................................................................................................................................................. 267 Costumes and props ............................................................................................................................................... 268 Picture Coding .......................................................................................................................................................... 270 Quick Dash ................................................................................................................................................................ 271 Guess Who? ............................................................................................................................................................... 272 Games for review ..................................................................................................................................................... 273 Consolidation of the short vowel sounds ............................................................................................................ 274 Reading Direction .................................................................................................................................................... 276 Handwriting Songs .................................................................................................................................................. 277 Handwriting practice suggestions ........................................................................................................................ 277 Blending and segmenting ‘Live Reading’ and ‘Live Spelling’ .......................................................................................................................... 278 Blending and segmenting with Picture Code Cards .......................................................................................... 281 Letterland Word Builders ........................................................................................................................................ 284 Written Spelling ........................................................................................................................................................ 287 Tricky Words ............................................................................................................................................................. 288 Tractors, Trains, Planes and Helicopters ............................................................................................................. 289 Word Card sort ........................................................................................................................................................ 291 Rhyming words: ‘If I can spell...’ ........................................................................................................................... 292 Game of the Week ................................................................................................................................................... 293 Fluency check with the whole class ...................................................................................................................... 295 Reading text: fluency and comprehension Guided reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 297 Readers’ Theater ...................................................................................................................................................... 299 Charting to build accuracy and fluency ............................................................................................................... 299 My Best Reading: Charting reading accuracy .................................................................................................... 299 Super Reading: Charting reading fluency ........................................................................................................... 301 Comprehension ........................................................................................................................................................ 303 Story Stone ................................................................................................................................................................ 303 Interview a character .............................................................................................................................................. 304 Story Map .................................................................................................................................................................. 305 The K-W-L Strategy .................................................................................................................................................... 306 Graphic organizers .................................................................................................................................................. 307 Vocabulary ................................................................................................................................................................ 308 Indexes .............................................................................................................................................309 Glossary of terms ..................................................................................................................................................... 309 Pictogram guide ....................................................................................................................................................... 310 Phonics and word structure index ......................................................................................................................... 312 Activities and materials index ................................................................................................................................ 313
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