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Do your students often experience difficulty breaking down a multi-syllable word when reading? This is a student-tested, explicit strategy that helps students identify multi-syllable words. It is a three-step process that is easy for students to learn, remember, and apply. All you have to do is spot the vowels, dot the vowels, and divide between them! This literacy resource comes with posters, bookmarks, and practice pages. It can be utilized during whole group, small group, and individual c

This product aligns with Barton Reading and Spelling Book 3. It is designed to help students review Orton-Gillingham based reading and spelling skills, including reading words with blends and digraphs, floss, kiss the cat, milk truck, catch lunch, units, and contractions. There are 20 review pages, and each page alternates between the use of real words and nonsense words for extra reinforcement of the skills. These pages can be used as a warm-up review activity, in a center, as guided reinforcem

This product aligns with Barton Reading and Spelling Book 4. It is designed to help students review Orton-Gillingham based reading and spelling skills, including syllable division, cry baby, fancy nancy, music trick, picnic chicken basket, happy, almost all, campus confess, schwa (Texas blossom and cancel pencil), banana, confident, and vowel teams. There are 20 pages that can be used as a warm-up review activity, in a center, as guided reinforcement, or as independent practice. An answer key is

Looking for a quick and easy reinforcement of the comprehension skills you are teaching? This comprehension product includes 20 daily practice pages for upper elementary readers in the areas of analogies, main idea, text structure, author's purpose, cause and effect, and context clues. There are five comprehension tasks per page, with either a multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank answer format. Also included is a comprehension skill overview and an answer key. Students can utilize these prac

This product is aligned with the science of reading. The strategies included will show students how to decode an unfamiliar word in their reading by focusing on all aspects or parts of the word. Each word detective clue describes a specific decoding or word attack strategy students can utilize when figuring out unfamiliar words. The strategies include looking at all the letters in the word, stretching out all the sounds in the word, blending all the sounds together, looking for word parts, find

This product aligns with Barton Reading and Spelling Book 5. It is designed to help students review Orton-Gillingham based reading and spelling skills focusing on decoding longer words by recognizing basewords, prefixes, and suffixes. Your students will practice applying their understanding and knowledge of the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes to read and spell real words. There are 20 pages that can be used as a warm-up review activity, in a center, as guided reinforcement, or as indepe

This product describes fluency using the 5 Ps: Perfection, Pace, Performance, Phrasing, and Punctuation. Included in this product are 5 Ps of Fluency posters that describe the characteristics of each fluency component, interactive practice example pages, and a student self-reflection form. The posters can be hung around the classroom as visual references for students or can be compiled into individual resource packets for students. These product can also be utilized by teachers as a slideshow

Do your students need practice with fluency phrasing? This product can help reinforce phrasing skills by using these phrase strips that are Fall themed. Students will learn how to read sentences about Fall one phrase at a time. Each phrase builds upon the previous phrase. Students can practice scooping up each phrase read aloud and pausing in between phrases. These strips can be cut-out, laminated, and hole-punched to be put on a key ring to be used in a literacy center, during Daily 5, as

In this Spot, Dot, Divide Pack, your students can practice applying the 1 Consonant Split syllabication strategy. Students learn to spot the vowels, dot the vowels, and then decide where to split the syllables to make a real word; either before the consonant in the middle of the vowels or after the consonant. This product includes practice pages for students to apply the 1 Consonant Split strategy to divide two syllable words. This strategy aligns to the Tiger Robin rule for dividing two syllabl

In this Winter Pack, your students can practice applying the Spot, Dot, Divide strategy to identify winter vocabulary words. Spot, Dot, Divide is a student-tested, explicit strategy that helps students identify multi-syllable words. It is a three-step process that is easy for students to learn, remember, and apply. Students spot the vowels, dot the vowels, and divide between them! This literacy resource comes with posters, bookmarks, and practice pages. It can be utilized as a guided or independ

This product supports the development of phrasing as a component of fluency. Students can practice the skill of reading in phrases to strengthen oral reading fluency. Each card contains phrases that build upon each other on each line of text, until a complete sentence is formed. The final sentences on each card all relate to Spring. Students can have fun reading these Spring sentences with proper phrasing in a literacy center, as a fluency warm-up, or as reinforcement following a fluency less

Do your students need practice with fluency phrasing? This product can help reinforce phrasing skills by using these phrase strips that are Winter themed. Students will learn how to read sentences about Winter one phrase at a time. Each phrase builds upon the previous phrase. Students can practice scooping up each phrase read aloud and pausing in between phrases. These strips can be cut-out, laminated, and hole-punched to be put on a key ring to be used in a literacy center, during Daily 5, as a

Spot, Dot, Divide is a strategy to help students learn how to decode multi-syllable words. This product includes single practice pages that align with the seasons and holidays. Students will have the opportunity to practice the spot, dot, divide strategy with words that coincide with the season and holiday themes. There are two syllable and three syllable words included in the practice pages.

Are you looking for a fun way for your students to practice reading words with the six different types of syllables? These syllable speed drills are an engaging and motivating way to help your students review the syllable types. This product contains one-minute speed drills for each of the syllable types. There are one syllable and two syllable speed drills for open, closed, silent-e, vowel team, and r-controlled syllables. There is a two syllable speed drill for the consonant + -le syllable typ

Students need to learn specific strategies for fixing up their reading when meaning breaks down. This resource helps students to develop the reading strategies such as slowing down, rereading, reading ahead, using context clues, and finding familiar word parts. Students will learn that if their reading clicks, there is no need to apply any tricks, but if their reading clunks, it is time to open their strategy trunks. This Buzz n' Books product is sure to help boost your students' reading skil

Dust for Dinner is a fantastic historical fiction book that describes the challenges a family encounters when moving from the Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression. This resource guide will help support students' comprehension of the text and encourage their critical thinking. Included in this resource guide is an anticipatory guide, vocabulary sort, QAR chart, storyboard for chapter summaries, and a making connections organizer. It can be utilized during a whole group novel stud

In this March Pack, your students can practice applying the Spot, Dot, Divide strategy to identify March related vocabulary words, including vocabulary for March in general, spring, March Madness, and St. Patrick's Day. Spot, Dot, Divide is a student-tested, explicit strategy that helps students identify multi-syllable words. It is a three-step process that is easy for students to learn, remember, and apply. Students spot the vowels, dot the vowels, and divide between them! This literacy resourc

These checklists can be utilized by students during the revision and editing stages of the writing process. The resources clearly distinguish the difference between revising and editing. Your students will learn the specific criterion to look for in their writing, and how to provide constructive feedback to their peers. There are three columns in each checklist, labeled "self", "peer" and "teacher". First, students can revise and edit their own writing, then meet with a peer to share in the p

This product is designed to be a comprehension tool for students learning how to retell fiction and nonfiction texts. It gives detailed information on what to include in a quality retell, along with graphic organizers for taking notes. There are reflection rubrics for students to utilize after they have completed a retelling to think about and review how they did and what they would like to improve on.

Are you looking for some extra reinforcement of those phonics skills you've been teaching your students? This Roll and Read Pack targets consonant blends and digraphs, short vowels, long vowels, r-controlled vowels, and vowel diphthongs. Your students can "roll and read" during independent work time, in learning centers, or as a warm-up activity. Students roll a die and read the corresponding sentence that practices the phonics skill. Then they tally up each number rolled to find the winni