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Fluency: Words, Fast Match ActivityFluency: Words, Fast Match Activity
Publisher
Florida Center for Reading Research
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Grade
K - 1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
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Year
2005
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Fluency: Words, Fast Match

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Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in their list. This goes back and forth until all of the words are found.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

reading fluency, emergent reading, phonics, high frequency words, beginning reading

Additional Tags

fluency, high frequency words, phonics, reading accuracy, early reading skills, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • List the game as a May Do activity 

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires printing and cutting cards 

Pros

  • Can continue the learning experiencing with other high-frequency words

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.3.c

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