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We love to Express Ourselves: Growing Toward Independence and Fluency Lesson PlanWe love to Express Ourselves: Growing Toward Independence and Fluency Lesson Plan
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We love to Express Ourselves: Growing Toward Independence and Fluency

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Reading with expression is an important component in developing fluency. Emerging readers learn different strategies for accomplishing this skill through the teacher's model reading of Earrings!. Partner practice is combined with effective modeling for the book The Father Who Walked on His Hands. A checklist serves as an assessment tool at the end of the lesson to guide re-teaching.

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end punctuation, punctuation, exclamation points, question marks, periods, reading with expression, reading fluency

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fluency, reading with expression, reading with fluency, end punctuation, rf.2.4, english language arts
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Pre-K - 4th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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1 hr
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Modeling
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