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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing With Pizzazz Sentence Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the students some statements and examples for them to look at and evaluate sentence fluency.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on variety in sentence openers; it includes a slideshow about adding variety in sentence fluency and length, and why and how to add variety to sentence openers with examples. It also offers an audio clip with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson plan is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great exercise to help young scholars practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Varying=smooth Reading

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts about varying sentences to improve fluency.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Sentence Emphasis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of various techniques that can be used in order to emphasize important sentences within a text.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Phrase Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson plan. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson plan. Students will develop...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Caught It!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, young scholars read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Academic Language: Everyone's "Second" Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Being able to speak English fluently does not guarantee that a student will be able to use language effectively in academic settings. Fluency must be combined with higher order thinking skills to create an "academic language," which...
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LD Online

Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson young scholars will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating Memorable Advice

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...
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Other

Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.

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