A teacher uses whole-class instruction and a graphic organizer to guide students as they formulate and answer questions related to their text.

Listen and read to Bud the Elf's bike-testing tale. A great way to develop elementary-aged reading and listening comprehension. Links to other "Christmas-time" games and stories.

In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare for reading by jotting what you already know. [4:14]

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode words pronounced with the short a sound by remembering that it occurs in a closed syllable. [3:35]

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode words pronounced with the short o and u sounds by remembering that they occur in closed syllables. [4:25]

In this lesson, you will learn how to decode four-phoneme words that start with consonant blends in a text by segmenting each sound and blending them all together to make words. [5:00]

In this lesson, you will learn how to read fluently by stopping at the period at the end of each sentence. [3:41]

In this lesson, you will learn how to read fluently by pausing at commas in sentences. [4:22]

In this lesson, you will learn that good readers read fluently by taking a quick break for in-sentence punctuation marks. [4:05]

In this lesson, you will learn how to read words starting with an open syllable and ending with the -Cle syllable by remembering the -Cle syllable makes the /ul/ sound like in "table." [4:58]

This is a collection of 23 short videos of literacy strategies for PreK-3