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Sounding out accuracy, Build a Word

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate how to build words. In this word study activity, students play a game where they must choose two index cards from each bucket and put them together to build a word.
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Sounding out accuracy, Mix, Mix, Match

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore English by identifying segments of words in class. In this phonetics lesson plan, students utilize flash cards which contain letters and mix them in order to create a "match" word. Young scholars sound out the...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bam!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the most cards is...
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Fluency: Words, Word Relay

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Peers take turns timing each other for one minute and reading as many high-frequency cards as possible.
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Fluency: Words, Fast Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is an interesting take on the old timed-fluency activity. In pairs, learners work together to see how fast they can read two sets of high-frequency words. Peer one reads a word from his list; peer two works fast to find that word in...
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Fluency: Connected Text, Speedy Phrases

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs help each other with reading fluency using phrase flashcards! Learners take turns reading short phrases aloud. They have one minute to read as many correctly as possible while their partner sorts the cards into a yes or no pile. At...
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Fluency: Connected Text, Rereading Decodable Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...
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Fluency, Connected Text, Partner Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan pairs high and low leveled readers together to make partner reading beneficial for both. Learners read a selected text as a team, when the lower leveled reader is stuck, his partner is there to help him out. And by...
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Word families accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders read new words that share the same rime as a word they already know.  In this word families instructional activity, 1st graders read words on index cards with the teacher, play a matching game with different rimes, and...
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Initial Sound Accuracy, Same Sound!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study words. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students play a game in which they identify if two words have the same initial sound. They play the game in pairs using a stack of word cards prepared by the teacher. This lesson...
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Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore language arts by participating in a letter identification activity. In this spelling lesson, students identify the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. Students collaborate in small groups and utilize large...
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Sounding Out Accuracy: Word Swatter Game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification activity, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound activity, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words on them to...
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Sounding out accuracy, The Sum of the Parts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore word structures by participating in a group activity. In this word segment lesson, students collaborate in small groups and pass out cards with certain letters that can form words when put together. Students win the game...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Potato

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learning to sound out CVC words can be fun, when you turn skills practice into a game. Kids play "Hot Potato" by passing a bucket filled with phonetically regular words on cards. When the music stops, students choose a word and sound it...
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Sounding out accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...
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Fluency, Connected Text, Computer-Based Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars take to computers or devices to boost reading skills using educational software or websites.
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Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Get your scholars ready to read their first story...with a little assistance, of course. Projecting the short story (included) for all readers to see, point to each word so they can sound it out together. The strategy here is not to have...
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1, 2, 3, Read!

For Teachers K - 1st
Explain to your readers a variety of decoding strategies to improve their reading fluency. They observe the teacher modeling blending, then in pairs take turns reading the book Clifford the Big Red Dog. Learners then time each other...
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Haunted House

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Read alouds are great ways to build fluency, accuracy, and intonation. Each slide contains part of a story about a haunted house and audio of the story being read aloud by several different children. Whether you use it as a reading...
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Stackers Game for word fluency

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy.  In this fluency lesson, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud.  Young scholars alternate turns by stacking...
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Introduce Silent-letter Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to silent letter words and practice their silent sound. In this silent letter words lesson, 1st graders take turns reading words with silent letters. Students sound out words and recognize the silent letter...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Bam!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Build word fluency! With this word recognition lesson, first and second graders play a game to practice saying irregular words with automaticity. They play in small groups using a set of word cards provided by their teacher. This lesson...
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Fluency, Letter-Sound Correspondence, Make a Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity tests the fluency skills of young readers. Scholars match initial sound cards to letter cards. Pairs take turns and work to locate the most matches before the timer goes off. The activity ends with a peer evaluation.

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