Fluency Practice Secret Sentences
DO you want to work on Fluency?
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Why We Love It
Fluency is hard, isn’t it? Readers have so much they need to do - they’re looking at a word, realizing all of the sounds for each letter, decoding it, and then they have to understand the word’s meaning. It can take quite some time to get the hang of fluency, and we must be patient with our students as they make their journey to fluency. So how do we get our students there? Secret Sentences is a great way to encourage fluency in our readers - especially those that are struggling.
Some students need that extra practice with fluency. This Secret Sentences activity is great for that because instead of asking the student to read the entire sentence, rather, it allows the student to read a sentence slowly, word by word. These Secret Sentences also cover a variety of phonics skills - from short vowels to digraphs to blends to vowel teams and more! So no matter where your students are in their reading journey, you’re sure to find a phonics skill that’s right for them.
How to Play
Before you begin, you can choose to laminate these sentence strips so you can use them over and over. Cut out each sentence strip individually and place them in a pile.
Students grab a sentence strip and fold it over so that just the first word is revealed. If you want to use a small sheet to cover the words instead so you don’t have to bend them, that’s a great option as well.
Students read the first word, and then reveal the second word. Students then read the first and second word in the sentence.
Students reveal the third word, then read the first, second, and third word.
This continues until the student has read and revealed all of the words in the sentence.
When finished, students go back and read the entire sentence again.
Depending on time and student ability, they may choose to complete more or all of the sentence strips within that phonics skill.
