94 Warm Up Phrases
Jillian Owens
Strategy Overview
- Students will practice reading phrases, commonly found in texts, in one breath, prior to reading.
- Eventually, these phrases will become identifiable to students on sight, allowing them to read them with proper phrasing and expression.
- When students are able to automatically decode words and phrases, it assists fluency and comprehension, as students can focus on the text beyond decoding the words that they are reading (Green et al., 2024).
Strategy in Action
The teacher can choose phrases that either appear in texts often, or phrases that will appear in the text that the students will be reading that day. The teacher will give the students the list of phrases. Students will decode each word individually and then practice saying all of the words together in one breath. When students come across these words while reading, they should be able to recognize them and read them with correct phrasing and expression.
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References
Green, C., Keogh, K., & Prout, J. (2024). The cpb sight words: A new research‐based high‐frequency wordlist for early reading instruction. The Reading Teacher, 78(1), 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2309
