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Podcasting for Reading Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Nothing helps you identify your reading fluency like hearing yourself read aloud! Increase reading fluency and expression by having young learners podcast a weekly high interest piece of literature. Assign a different star or featured...
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Advanced Phonics Redux Fluency

For Teachers 1st
After being introduced to words with advanced phonics features, the teacher presents the whole class with a stack of cards containing both new and familiar words. As each card is presented, the teacher says the word and recites the rule...
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Oral Reading Fluency: Reading Text with Proper Expression

For Teachers K - 1st
Kids practice reading fluently with expression. They listen closely as their teacher reads a short paragraph, take note as she points out how she read each sentence, and then read along with her. They read to passage several times until...
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Race into Fluency!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Elementary learners practice reading short passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs to do repeated readings of Jane and Babe, recording their times. They switch roles and time one another in an effort to decrease the amount...
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Reading (Fluency)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Emerging readers practice reading fluency. First, they listen to the teacher and classmates model fluent reading, and then they practice fluent oral reading with a partner. To close the day, they participate in a Reader's Theatre based...
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Dive Into Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners observe and demonstrate various reading strategies to improve their reading fluency. The teacher first models smooth speech. In pairs, pupils take turns reading from the book Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea by Cynthia...
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Fire! Fire! Fire!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The book Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia, is read with quickness and fluency in this lesson. The teacher models slow, choppy oral reading, and then smooth, quick, and fluent oral reading. Then, students read orally with a partner, encouraging...
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Irregular Words Fluency, Speed Battle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Let's play a game! Explore language arts by participating in a flash card reading game. Kids utilize flash cards that have a number of irregular words written on them. They collaborate in pairs and compete as they attempt to pronounce...
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How Do I know That a Book Is Just Right for Me to Read?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners choose a book for reading. In this language arts activity, students take steps to evaluate a book for free reading. Learners make a list of words found in the book that they are unfamiliar with.
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Introducing Phonemic Awareness Using Oral and Written Instruction

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension through phonemic awareness. They use a color-coding system to master the long and short vowel sounds and develop their skills in listening and...
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Put a Stop to "Choppy and Stoppy" Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use a crosscheck strategy to improve their oral reading rate and fluency. They are timed reading "Bud the Sub" orally three times, and work to improve their time and expression each time through. Students encourage each other...
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Reading and Racing with Arthur

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the importance of reading with fluency. They listen as the teacher reads a book pronouncing every word by its phonemes -- choppy and broken up. They then practice reading the book "Arthur's Reading Race." They are...
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Speedy Reading!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading has on their speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to...
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Exceptional Expression!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young elementary learners develop expression while reading. They listen as the teacher demonstrates expression when reading aloud. Individual learners read with a partner and practice using expression in their reading. When their partner...
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Blast-Off to Blending

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Fluency is Freedom!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support...
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Make Way for Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading fluently and with expression. They explore different techniques for reading quickly when coming upon unknown words. They also participate in a paired reading activity in which they read "Make Way for...
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As Smooth as Silk

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice strategies dealing with reading fluency and how to read smoothly. They study the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, while incorporating cross checking. This activity includes a small drum, a piece of silk and a...
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Ready, Set, Go!!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading have on speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to improve...
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Falling Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying individual sounds in words by interacting with the phoneme /a/. They recite the tongue twister, "Abby had an apple in the bag," and play the game beware of the falling apples. Each student also reads the...
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Reading Race

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe how the first sentence of a story is read very slowly and can be read faster and with more expression. They then read the same book three times to become more familiar with the words in the book and then read it...
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Quick - Follow That Bear!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils examine the importance of speaking with fluency and expression. They listen to the teacher modeling fluent, smooth reading and choppy reading. The students read "Follow That Bear!" orally, and practice reading it quickly and with...
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...

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