Writing++-+Sentence+Fluency

Week Four ~ Sentence Fluency

** Reading Suggestions: **
 * Examples (Pages 67-74)
 * Checklist for Sentence Fluency (Page 74)
 * Teaching strategies (Pages 131-137)
 * Teaching Sentence Fluency (Pages 99-101)
 * Books for Teaching Sentence Fluency (Pages 222-227)
 * Six Point writing guide (Pages 288)

** Thought questions **
 * What is sentence fluency?
 * Should sentence fluency be taught as its own trait or joined together with another trait?
 * What are some of your best practices for teaching sentence fluency?

** Websites ** [|**http://www.evan-moor.com/Product.aspx?SeriesID=188**] **daily six trait writing e book**

[] Trait songs

[] - some general sentence fluency activities

[] - sentence fluency activities

[|**http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/teaching-sentence-fluency-using-whales-passing**] -1st grade lesson using the book Whales Passing

[] - free audio recording website

[] - free audio recording website

[] phonics phones improve reading instruction

** Books ** **__George and Martha__** by James Marshal: dialog


 * __Agent A to Agent Z:__** by Andy Rash**:** rhyming couplets


 * __Cloud Dance__** **or __Water Dance__** by Thomas Locker


 * __Alphabet Tree__**by Leo Lionni: shows what literacy is about


 * __Dream Weaver__**by Jonathan London**:** beautiful language


 * __Fireflies__** by Julie Brinckloe


 * __In the Space of the Sky__** by Richard Lewis and Debra Frasier


 * __Joyful Noise__** by Paul Fleischman


 * __The Magic Hat__** by Mem Fox


 * __Saturdays and Teacakes__** by Lester Laminack and Chris Soentpiet


 * __Tanka Tanka Skunk__****!** by Steve Webb


 * __Sheep in a Jeep__** by Nancy Shaw- allow children to join in with endings.


 * __Whales Passing__** by Eve Bunting

<span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**__I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices__** by Paul Fleischman