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Read Works: Portrait of an Artist
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares a first person account of an artist's life. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: An Owl Is a Bird
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage provides facts about owls. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions and a...
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Read Works: Telephones: Then and Now
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is about how telephones have changed over the years. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills...
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Read Works: The United States of America
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what it means to be an American. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: What the Book Is Mainly About
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Tigers! by Sarah L. Thomson and Ladybugs by Monica Hughes to teach students to use titles, pictures, and text to identify the main idea of an informational text. Ideas for direct...
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Read Works: In the Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage offers students the opportunity to conclude what type of animal is prowling in the night. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce...
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Read Works: Three Blind Mice
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is the nursery rhyme about three blind mice. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: The Buzz About Honey
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the role of honeybees in producing honey. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Tes: My Reading Record
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of blank reading records will help with the assessment of reading comprehension. Students write about what they have read during a teacher-determined period of time. The reading record...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Guided Reading Lesson
The benefits of guided reading are plentiful! Students will have increased fluency, an expanded vocabulary, stronger phonemic awareness, and a greater motivation to read. Use the following PDF as a template for your guided reading lesson.
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Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise" by Suzy Kline. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Each Peach Pear Plum
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Each Peach Pear Plum" by Allan Ahlberg. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This instructional activity uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The instructional activity involves guided practice where the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities: Grades 2 3
In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 3: The Zebra Warp Drive
This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra who finds the 'zebra warp drive' and learns how to drive a tractor. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
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Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 4: The Big City
This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy of Zebra as he goes to a carnival. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
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Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 6: Frank
This Roy the Zebra e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra's bus trip and visit to a safari park. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
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Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 7: The Safari Park
This e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra and his trip to a safari park. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
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Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 8: How to Find the Herd
This e-book shares a story of Roy the Zebra and his method for finding this herd. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
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Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 9: The Big Twitch
This e-book shares the story of Roy the Zebra as he uses his nose to try and find his herd. Students will develop their fluency and reading comprehension through this guided reading book.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...
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Read Works: American Symbols Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses American symbols. This passage can be used as a guided passage or to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...