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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Back at It...

I have to keep asking myself, "Where did my summer go?"  
We didn't go anywhere.  We didn't do anything.  But, I honestly can't tell you where my time went.  I think it was probably spent on a ball field or two--or waking up early to get everyone up and at it so the darling daughter could get to Softball conditioning.  It wasn't a summer spent vacationing---but it sure did quickly vanish.
 I'm just not quite ready to let summer go.  

Don't get me wrong.  I LOVE my job.  I really do.  It's just to be able to feel like a family for a few weeks out of a year is HEAVENLY.  I get to see my kids, talk to my kids, play games---and not feel rushed to get everything done, plan lessons, clean house, do laundry, run 50 places during the week---it's just nice!
---even if sometimes I DID want a vacation from my own kids! :)  You would think with a 14 year old and a 10 year old that this wouldn't be the case---BUT some days---it most definitely was! Ohh that TOGETHERNESS! :)
So that brings me to the start of my school year.  I always have these thoughts that I'm going to work on school stuff during the summer.  However, that didn't get accomplished either.  I will chalk it up to the fact that it's because I'm not sure what grades I'm working with this year, or what subjects. True story.  I will probably be servicing 1st and 2nd...and probably back to doing reading AND math this year.  Regardless, I base my instruction around my students levels, so it's hard to guesstimate what to work on.

BUT---today---TODAY I DID work on something.  I woke up to this sweet email.  An email asking me if I had any other stories like this freebie I shared a while back:

The Little Cat Freebie-First Grade and Fabulous

You can click the image above to check it out. 

So I thought to myself...why not try another story?  After all, my kids started back to school today, and I was home with hubby.  If I made myself busy or at the very least ACTED busy, he would eventually find his way to the laundry and housework.

I thought about the what I could probably use for intervention with my students.  Our district adopted Fry Words for this school year.  I have already made Fry Fluency Reads like the Dolch Fluency Reads that I've shared on this post.  See link HERE.  You can check out the Fry Reads on TpT from this link HERE.

Since we are working with Fry words, I wanted to stick with using the first few words on the Hundred list.  I came up with this story called The Dog.

Several sight words are used throughout the story, 
as well as CvC words for decoding, and simple use of picture clues.

These are the words I focused on in this selection.

I also wanted to include a simple comprehension component.

Finally, just like in the story The Little Cat, I made sure to include some word work/sentence work.

If this looks like something that you could use for Back to School with your students, or for intervention groups, you can download this freebie on TpT.  
Check it out by clicking the image below.


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