Vowel Teams Reading Fluency Passages and Practice | Decodable Sentences

This comprehensive bundle is designed for early readers and fluent readers alike, focusing on word segmentation, high frequency word recognition, reading fluency, and the application of various spelling patterns. It's ideal for students learning to decode words with vowel teams, diphthongs, and long vowel spelling patterns, as well as those ready to incorporate these patterns into their writing.

This bundle includes 10 fluency passages with comprehension questions and word sorts, 13 sheets of decodable fluency phrases, word lists, and data sheets.

Skills included:

•long a - a, ai, a_e, ay, ae, -y, eigh, ei, ey (make, rain, play, great, baby, eight, vein, they)

•long e - ee, e_e, -e, ea, ey, -y, ie, ei (bee, these, we, eat, key, happy, chief, either)

•long i - i_e, ie, -y, igh, -I (nice, pie, my, light, rifle)

•long o - o_e, oa, oe, ow, o- (note, boat, toe, snow, open)

•long u/oo - oo, u_e, ue, ew, ui, ou (moo, tube, blue, new, suit, soup)

•/aw/ - aw, au, all, wa, ough (saw, pause, mall, water, cough)

•short e - ea

•/ow/ - ow, ou (cow, out)

•/oi/ - oi, oy (boy, boil)

•short /oo/ - oo, ou (took, could)

Included in this unit:

10 Fluency Passages with Comprehension Questions, Phonics Rules Word Hunt Flap Book, Word Sort Worksheet (Great for small group!)

• Kate’s Cake
• Steve’s Lost Key
• Ike’s Bike
• Joe’s Scratchy Throat
• Duke’s and His Flute
• Paul’s Bad Day
• Bret and Chet
• The Clown
• Troy’s Noisy Toy Toilet
• Brook’s Big Cookie

16 Sheets of Fluency Sentences and Data Sheets

These fluency sentences were created to be used with one of my targeted small groups. During our small group time I give each student the same list (these students are working on the same skills). They whisper read each sentence. I listen carefully and help students with words as needed. Each time they read the sentence; they check off one of the three boxes. They keep the sheet in their working folder and practice throughout the week. I usually listen to them a final time on Thursday or Friday, and then they take the sheets home to read to their adults.

Word List and Data Sheets

This is basically a list of words in a table format! It’s nothing fancy, but my students LOVE reading these words in guided reading group and as a partner activity! The table and data sheets are also great for keeping documentation of what students know!

Some ideas of using these tables…

• Blend/Read a word and paint a word
• Blend/Read a word and highlight a word
• Use dot paint or crayons with partners to play a word version of (tic-tac-toe). Students have to read the word before dotting or coloring the word.
• Cut out the words. The teacher says a word and the first student to find the word gets the card. The winner is the student with the most cards.
• You could also just use these tables as a quick assessment. The Dolch words are listed in order of frequency.

Grapheme Cards

In my classroom I use these cards to help my students identify and quickly recall the sounds of each letter combination. When I hold up the letters “ai” my students say, “ai says /a/”, then I point to different words on the card and students read those words. These cards give extra practice leading to automatic recall of each phonic pattern.

Intermediate Passages

The 10 passages are the same, but organized with the intermediate student in mind!

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