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      <image:caption>The second step in paragraph shrinking is having students combine their main idea statements into a summary.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Examples of Fiction (Story Map) and Non-Fiction Text Structure Graphic Organizers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When you plan a lesson, select a strategy (or focus point) that will help students better understand the text.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The first step in teaching paragraph shrinking is to help students pull the main idea from each paragraph in a text.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Data-based Decision Making Tool</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I display the slide and run my finger from left to right as I say the sounds.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A slide from my blends digital flashcards.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Show the picture, ask students to say “vine”. Then ask, what’s the first sound you hear in “vine”? Students should say /v/. Then ask, what letter spells /v/? Students should say “v!” Display the slide that incorporates the letter. Adding letters to phonemic awareness instruction will get your students reading and spelling faster, and is shown to be more effective than not using letters! (NRP, 2020).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A quick spelling check helps us see if students are ready to move on to the next phonics skill.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When we survey back, we start at comprehension and drop down a step to see which skill is blocking the student from making progress.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Successive blending mats build a bridge from sound by sound blending to whole word reading.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CVC slide decks support word level automaticity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CVC decoding and encoding activities support word level automaticity as well!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handwriting notebooks with minimal tracing help students work toward handwriting fluency. Typically, when students trace letters independently, they end up “drawing the letters” rather than using proper letter formation (top to bottom and left to right directionality). Instead, guide students through tracing 1-2 of the target letter and then have them practice forming the letter without tracing while you guide them with letter formation cues. You can access my handwriting cues in my alphabet knowledge lessons, which explicitly integrate handwriting instruction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Following the same script each time keeps lessons explicit and consistent.</image:caption>
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