- Short Vowels Skill Explainer
Fluency Practice: Reading Phrases with Short 'i' and Short 'e'
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Estella Escajeda: So, everybody get your magical popsicle sticks. You're going to need your magical popsicle sticks to follow along.
Narrator: In this part of Esella Escajeda's lesson on the short 'e' and short 'i' vowel sounds, students now will read phrases . They're building on the spelling they did earlier in the lesson. Scaffolding learning in this way develops accuracy and supports fluency.
Estella Escajeda: We're going to read these phrases three times, okay? So, these are phrases, they're not sentences, remember they're phrases. We're going to read it three times. The first time we're going to read it to be sure we read the word correctly. The second time, we're going to make sure we read it at a good speed — not too fast and
Students: ... not too slow.
Estella Escajeda: Right? ... Not too slow. And then the third time, we're going to read it, we're going to make sure that what we read matches what the words are trying to tell us. Are we ready? Okay, so we're going to go across, okay? The first one is "in the bed."
Students: "in the bed" ..."the big net" ... "is not wet" ...
Narrator: Ms. Escajeda leads her third graders in guided oral reading, which helps students with accuracy, speed, and expression — or fluent reading. It's a bridge between word recognition and reading comprehension.
Ms. Escajeda and students: "a red pen" ...
Estella Escajeda: Good job. How do you think we did?
Students: Good ...
Estella Escajeda: I think we did good.
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