If you follow my blog, you know that fluency is something that I write about from time to time. Here is one of the posts:
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Fluency is one of those skills that can be easily overlooked because we spend so much time teaching phonics and phonemic awareness in the primary grades. It wasn't until I sat in a P.D. - yes there are helpful professional development meetings - that I finally understood the long lasting impact fluency instruction had our students. Read the post above to find out more about this.
After I sat through that PD, I went "back to the drawing board" or so to speak. I didn't have any more time in my schedule, but I knew I wanted my students to do more fluency strengthening activities. I needed to find lessons and activities that they could do individually, with a partner, as a center, or with a small group. My answer was my Sentence Shuffle Centers.
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