Read the carols
Hand out lyric sheets for a familiar carol and sing it twice. Then kids hunt for rhyming words, circle the nouns or count syllables. Reading words they already know by heart builds fluency fast.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
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