# Word Families to Improve Reading Fluency | Episode 82

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Published: 2025-01-20T03:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail TD Flenaugh discusses strategies for improving children's reading fluency through word families. The episode focuses on the CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern, emphasizing the use of short vowel sounds, and the concept of "magic E." Flenaugh introduces -ID and -IDE words, explaining how children can recognize patterns to read more efficiently. The importance of reading connected text and sight words is highlighted, along with the use of tools like ChatGPT and Project Read AI for creating decodable passages. Get your book bundle The R.E.W.R.I.T.E. Method and The R.E.W.R.I.T.E. Method Workbook to help children fall in love with writing. Support the show We drop new episodes every Saturday at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Follow us: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fallingforlearning/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fallingforlearning/ https://linktr.ee/falling4learning

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