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- Choose two different
reading basal stories. One at the pre primer level and at the
comprehension level of your students. Read a portion of both to
aloud and ask students what differences they heard, what they enjoyed
listening to more. Hopefully they came up with the fact that one
had a variety of sentenc lengths and beginnings. Use this example
as a guideline to use for their writing.
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- Reading poetry aloud
is something that students find they truly enjoy. It will also
help them tune their ear to good sentence fluency.
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- After reading many
books with sentence fluency students start to see a variation in
sentence beginnings. Have students brainstorm some catchy sentence
beginnings. Write these beginnings on the board and have students
chose four to six beginnings to finish in the form of a paragraph.
At the same time the teacher uses only one of beginnings and writes a
paragraph. Once everyone is finished writing share the teachers versus
some of the other students. Question the students on what they
noticed and can learn from the activity.
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- Use poetry to give
students practice reading aloud and break it up into parts for a choral
reading. Have the small group present their choral reading
to the class.
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