Hop to It

Objective: Students will read familiar phrases fluently with appropriate rhythm. TEKS: 1st- 5(A) read aloud a grade-level appropriate text with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) and comprehension 2nd- 4(A) read aloud grade-level appropriate text with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) and comprehension Materials: - Froggy card(s) -card stock - popsicle stick(s) - glue - copy of familiar short text (a poem or passage from a shared reading) or phrases (see list) - sentence strips or index cards - chart paper Preparations: ! Make a copy or copies of the Froggy card (NOTE: you can make a Froggy for each student or one for the group to share) on card stock; cut out and glue to the top of a popsicle stick. ! Print a familiar short text or a phrase on sentence strips or index cards in meaningful units such as the following:

Run, run
.

as fast as you can

you can!t catch me

I!m the gingerbread man

!Make the print large enough so student can see it from several feet away; laminate for durability. !Copy the familiar text or phrases on a chart paper !Introduce, model, and practice reading poems, short text, and/or phrases fluently with expression and rhythm. Directions: 1. Review reading smoothly with expression and rhythm. 2. Practice reading the short text or phrases together using the chart paper.

3. Place the strips in order on the floor, spacing them apart so they can easily hop from one to the other. 4. One student holds the Froggy Stick and stands in front of the first card. He/ She reads the card and hops to the next one and so forth until the last card. This is repeated 3 times. 5. On the fourth time, the student stops hopping and reads the entire short text, phrase- smoothly and with expression. NOTE: Make different sets of short text and/or phrases so that the group can do the activity simultaneously and rotate through the sets. Extension: Add another fluency element by having students read the short text/ phrases using different emotions such as happy, sad, angry, and surprised.