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LITERACY IN THE CLASSROOM

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4 Quick Skills You Can Practice Using Word Family Passages

Word family passages are a great way to work on word families and sneak in some other skill practice at the same time. Here are four easy ways to integrate word families with important skills your students will be working on.

3 Steps to Make Word Family Interactive Notebooks Successful

by Creation Castle

Teaching word families in your classroom doesn’t need to be a boring skill and drill activity. Don’t get me wrong – there are only so many ways to learn a topic and something like word families is going to get repetitive over time. One way to keep things interesting is to use word family interactive notebooks.

3 Ways Adding Word Families to Your Instruction Can Benefit Young Readers

by Resource Ranch

We can all agree that teaching children to read is an important part of early elementary education, but how we should go about preparing students to become readers is often a topic of debate among teachers. I believe the best approach is to provide students with several reading strategies. One of those that I have found of greatest value both working as a classroom teacher and as a reading specialist was word families.