Curated OER
High Frequency Word Work
First graders make an "All About Me" book. In this high fluency words lesson students use a computer program to create a book about themselves. Students write their own text.
Curriculum Corner
Valentine's Math and Literacy Centers
Look no further for a Valentine's Day-themed packet intended for math and literacy centers. Learners practice writing, reading, and representing numbers in a variety of ways, including skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100. The pink...
Curated OER
Silent-Letter Word Fluency
First graders play a word card game to study words with silent letters. In this word sounds lesson, 1st graders say the words on the cards as fast as possible. Students continue to shuffle the cards and practice saying the words.
Curated OER
Build Fluency /m/
Once kindergartners have learned the letter m they are ready for this sound correspondence activity. Start with a stack of letter cards including mostly m and a few other letters they haven't learned yet. Find these letter cards here for...
Curated OER
Compound Word Frequency
First graders explore English by participating in a vocabulary activity. In this compound word lesson plan, 1st graders define what a "compound word" is and read several examples of them. Students utilize a stack of flash cards to...
Curated OER
Art About Me- The Skin You Live In
Students read the text The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. In this literacy lesson, students discuss the characters in the text and the various shades of skin they observed on each page. Students read the beautiful descriptions of the...
Curated OER
Haunted House
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...
Achieve3000
Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the...
Curated OER
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Storia Teaching Guide
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...
Curated OER
“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help the...
Curated OER
Farm Animals
Students participate in fluency activities related to farm animals. They discuss counting sheep and view clips from the video "Babe." They create a short dialogue between Babe and Fly. They role play as animals providing the sounds...
Curriculum Corner
Book Study: The Polar Express
All aboard! Pair a reading of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg with a set of literacy activities. The packet of worksheets includes task cards, sorting activities, a synonym match, comparing and contrasting activities, writing...
Curriculum Corner
Digraph Word Hunt
Support young learners with developing their spelling skills and ready fluency with this simple graphic organizer. Focusing on the four consonant digraphs /th/, /ch/, /sh/, and /wh/, students dig through their independent reading books...
We are Teachers
The Six Traits in Plain Language
If your rockin' writers use Six-Trait Writing, you'll definitely want to include these displays around your classroom throughout the year. Each trait (e.g. voice, word choice, organization, ideas, sentence fluency, conventions) is...
Curated OER
Plural Words Activity
In this reading and writing worksheet, students learn the plural forms of basic 3 letter words. They match the 6 plural words from the word bank with the corresponding images from the 6 options on the page.
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Reading with Expression
In this reading aloud worksheet, students ask their family to read the worksheet story to them. Students then practice reading the story by themselves. Students read the story to their family and finally read it to their teacher. Parents...
Curated OER
School-Home Links: Reading
In this favorite book instructional activity, students write the titles of five books they have read or someone has read to them. Students then tell their family which of the books is their favorite and why. Parents or guardians must...
Curated OER
A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson
Young scholars discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class. In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher. Young scholars...
Curated OER
Letter Combination Fluency
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. In this phonics instructional activity, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words....
Smekens Education Solutions, Inc.
Introducing the 6 Traits to Students
Put together an English language arts unit on the six traits of writing with this helpful collection of resources. From fun songs to differentiated writing exercises reinforcing each of the traits, great ideas are provided for developing...
Curated OER
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Do your young readers know that poems can be performed as a team? They listen to a few examples from Paul Fleischman's book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, paying attention to how the how readers work together. They examine the...
Innovative Mobile Apps
Fry Words
Looking for a straightforward app for practicing high-frequency words? You've found one here! This app includes all 1000 Fry words and several ways for kids to practice with each and every one.
Curated OER
New Shoes for Sylvia
First graders explore reading comprehension by analyzing a story in class. In this story structure lesson, 1st graders read the book New Shoes for Sylvia and discuss the character and her dilemma in the story. Students answer study...
K12 Reader
1st Grade Spelling Lists
If you're looking for spelling lists, check out this resource! Included here are 36 spelling worksheets, each with eight words to study. The worksheets include sight words, and each list also focuses on a particular word family. Learners...
Other popular searches
- Reading Fluency Passages
- Reading Fluency Games
- Sentence Fluency
- Oral Reading Fluency
- Punctuation Reading Fluency
- Improving Reading Fluency
- Reading Fluency Lesson Plans
- Reading Fluency Strategies
- Reading Fluency Worksheets
- Initial Sound Fluency
- Guided Reading Fluency
- Fluency Choral Reading