It’s a tornado… a volcano… an earthquake! Oh, it’s really just little Moshe protesting doing his kriah homework. (If only they would put half the amount of energy into doing their work, as they put into evading their work!)
Practice is crucial, yet often the children protest for it is too hard and too “boring”. In this section you will find different tried and true fluency programs, carefully designed to help build fluency skills, while engaging and motivating the reader. Material is broken down into bite sized pieces and progressively builds ‘reading muscles.’ Measurable, user friendly scoring systems help motivate as well as monitor. Careful graphic designs help make the text easier and more pleasant to read. Parent/teacher guides explain how to utilize the material and incorporate multi-sensory strategies. These details (and more!) help transform generic reading material into purposeful skill building material, volcano free!
Tehillim
Practice the beautiful words of Tehillim 119, with many skill building and user friendly features including: pre-coding instructions, easy to read decoding pages, large letters, shaded tracking lines, encoding pages for multi-sensory practice and meaning, and numbered syllables and scoring system.
Time -Travelers (2 factor)
Take a 1 minute travel trip! Children build their ‘reading muscles’ in this set of 28 one minute reading exercises of double factor blending, (meant to be done 3 times each). There are 7 levels of increasing difficulty, color coded by the rainbow!
Reading Accuracy Checklist I
Five reading accuracy skills, whimsically illustrated to help readers identify and correct their pattern of mistakes. Blank tiles below provide room for charting and miscue analysis.
Rhyming Time-Travelers
These Rhyme Time-Travelers contain 20 second “single factor blending” challenges. Level I has the letters in order, while Level II has “trick mixes.” Great for fluency practice of blends!
Level I
Level II
Iggeres Haramban Fluency-Shva cards
Increase reading speed and practice the shva rules in 1-minute exercises! Using the Ramban’s timeless classic, the student gets to practice the 5 shva rules and improve their fluency skills. These flashcard exercises come with multiple scoring and charting methods, along with pre-code, pre-check, and pre-count options.
Pyramid Pirkei Avos
By utilizing the methodology known as ”pyramid reading,” the student increases fluency with the added bonus of becoming familiar with the beautiful text of Pirkei Avos, using these 24 unique pages.
Time your student, and keep score in the space below each pyramid to chart progress. See if you could make the goal!
My son loves playing games, and with the ziggawat reading games- it made reading more exciting !
Great to hear! May he always enjoy reading!