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Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners Lesson PlanDivide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners Lesson Plan
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Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners

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Students are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice clapping out the syllables and making words by pulling vowels and consonants out of a hat.

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consonants, syllables, phonemic awareness, phonics

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6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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