AB Word Family Fluency Pyramid – Reading Practice

- Year levels
- Year 1, Pre-school (Early Years)
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, English
- Topic
- AB Word Family, AB Word Family Fluency
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9EFLY04 — read decodable AC9EFLY12 — write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by… +1
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Practise reading fluency with these AB word pyramid reading sentences. Students will read the pyramid sentences to gain fluency reading AB words. Students will love the easy to recognise pictures that go along with each sentence.
What are Sentence Pyramids?
Sentence pyramids are type of fluency activity where a new word of a sentence is introduced on each consecutive reading of the sentence. This allows students to have a ton of practice with reading simple sight words and the AB word family words by using repetition to help students remember the words they are reading. Be sure to scroll through the images including with this listing to see several examples of the types of sentences included in this set.
When to Use:
* Literacy Centres
* Small Group Activities
* Independent Practice
* Homework
* Task Box Activity
* Reading Ring
This fluency activity can be completed by students independently or with teacher assistance in small groups or one on one. The sentence pyramid activities provide a fun and engaging way for teachers to practise reading fluency with students.
Skills Assessed:
* Reading AB words in context
* Reading Fluency
These AB word pyramid sentences are a low prep activity. The teacher just needs to print, cut apart and laminate if desired for durability. Cards can be bound together with a ring clip or placed in a task box for an easy to set up and clean up centre for students to practise reading fluency. Once created, this set of cards is perfect to use in a literacy or reading centre, small group activity or as one on one fluency practice with the teacher. Teachers and students can also create their own reading rings or packets they can be sent home for extra reading practice with parents.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Read simple sentences with -ab words and sight words
Skills covered
Fluency — rereading a growing sentence as each new word is added
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9EFLY04 — read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, and monitor meaning using context and emerging grammatical knowledge
- AC9EFLY12 — write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words
- AC9E1LY04 — read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, phrasing and fluency, and monitoring meaning using context and grammatical knowledge
Core concepts
-ab word family
Sight words
Reading fluency
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