Help me give my students one-minute timers and stopwatches to help in their practice of reading and math fluency.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Burdick's classroom raised $355
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My Project
I am requesting 1-minute timers and stopwatches to help my students work on fluency in reading and math. On a daily basis, my students are practicing reading passages to improve their reading fluency. By the end of third grade students should be able to read 120 words per minute. Solving math computation problems with fluency is also a goal we are working on.
Fluency practice is so crucial for my third-grade students.
Understanding a story rather than struggling to decode the words will lead to a positive reading experience. With these stopwatches, my students can work in pairs practicing their reading fluency. Being able to do this on a daily basis will be fun for the kids and something they will look forward to. I look forward to seeing their words per minute increase as they practice each week.
Learning multiplication facts as well as other math operations with fluency and accuracy is also vitally important. With some of the independent work I have for my students during math time, they are to time themselves for 1 minute and then again for three minutes. Since we are short on the number of timers I have, I have to have them look up at the clock or I have to stop my small group instruction and time them using my phone. Having a set of sand timers and stopwatches would be great during this time.
The small things make a huge difference! I appreciate your willingness to donate timers and stopwatches to my class to help improve our reading and math fluency.
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