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Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader ActivityEssential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader Activity
Publisher
University of Texas
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K - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

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Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional reading, and word analysis, 56 engaging exercises challenge youngsters to decode various word patterns, match rhyming words, discriminate phonemes, and practice story mapping.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

beginning reading, emergent reading, reading fluency, phonics, phonemes, cloze reading, rhyming, counting syllables, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, decoding, decoding words, long vowels, short vowels, vowel digraphs, spelling, spelling patterns, contractions

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Send some of the activities home for children to practice with their parents
  • Keep activities available for group work or in a literacy center
  • Use the activities as benchmark assessments for reading intervention classes
  • Perfect for private tutors

Classroom Considerations

  • Provides a weekly schedule for the activities, but you can modify the schedule based on your learners' needs

Pros

  • Addresses gaps that may exist in your existing reading curriculum
  • Encourages repeated practice with reading skills
  • Games and exercises are fun for learners of all ages

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.1.a RF.K.2.a RF.K.3.a RF.K.4 RF.1.1.a RF.1.2.a RF.1.3.a RF.1.4.a RF.2.3.a RF.2.4.a RF.3.3.a RF.3.4.a RF.4.3.a RF.4.4.a RF.5.3.a RF.5.4.a

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