Take a themed sentence and write it on a sentence strip.
Cut it apart.
Add a few die cut shapes.
Since I picked a March themed sentence,
Since I picked a March themed sentence,
I chose to die cut circles for gold coins.
I added the coin pieces in front of the nouns.
I have my students add “sparkles” to make the nouns shine!
We go noun by noun.
We give each word several “sparkle” words in front of it.
Then we reread the sentence adding and changing out the sparkle word.
This is also a great chance to change your expression while reading the sentence
several different ways.
I originally got from somewhere else, but that I now do all the time!
My class LOVES this and it meets the needs of so many different types of learners.
Try this at school this week.
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What other literacy ideas do you use during calendar time?
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