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Just wondering if there's anyone else out there who teachers first grade OCR who might have some advice/great ideas.

Because of my schedule set up this year, I have about 45 minutes to try to squeeze in the phonics and reading comprhension material for each lesson each day. I'm trying to come up with a good way to do this while meeting my kids needs. Obviously, I already cut a lot of it out - I only do one phonemic awareness activity, I have my blending board prewritten to save on all the time it would take to write each word, and I use buddy reading for the decodable books since we never have enough time in class for a choral read ( I am also planning on doing choral readings of the practice books in small groups). Then for reading, I do a quick activation of prior knowledge, introduce the vocab word, and read the story using the Common Core standard we are focusing on instead of the prompts in the book. It is stressful and rushed and I'm usually out of time at the end for mo...See More


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