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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Reading Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Cloze Passage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about cloze passages, a contextual analysis instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement cloze passages, understand how to measure progress with cloze passages, find research that supports...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...
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Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Phrase Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Building Toward Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st
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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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Dyslexia

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children with dyslexia often have poor phonological skills, resulting in difficulties with decoding, reading fluency, and spelling. Dyslexia can also impact reading comprehension and writing. Learn about the early warning signs for...
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Other

The Waterfall [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
This is a third grade reading fluency exercise entitled "The Waterfall" and has 205 words.
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Other

Progressive Phonics: Progressive Phonics All in One Reading Program

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers phonics practice for beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers using downloadable books that encourage fluency, comprehension and a love of reading. The program also includes downloadable alphabet and handwriting...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's

For Teachers K - 1st
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that animal moves....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Color Songs [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight colorful charts each contain a song about a color. While singing along with the class students increase reading fluency and learn to use picture clues.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
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Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Tale of a Singing Zebra: Chapter 6: Frank

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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