Today in Fundations we reread the very short story "King Sam," discussing the main events, characters, and setting-- which we had to visualize in our minds since the story had no pictures to help us. We work hard to read fluently, which in part means "scooping" up words into phrases rather than reading one. word. at. a. time. After we reread the story together, students read it to one another to practice this scooping-- with copies of the story with phrases already scooped to help them practice this. Then with their partner they saw how many "glued sounds" they could find and mark with a box. The glued sounds we've been working hard on for the last couple of weeks are ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, and unk. These little stories are controlled texts, which means they feature only the trick words and spelling rules we have learned so far-- so they found a lot of glued sounds! Students brought the story home today and it would be great fluency practice if they could read it aloud to you a few times!
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