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Small Group Reading

For Teachers K - 2nd
It's the age of technology! The idea of computer literacy and fluency are rapidly gaining importance; can your learners keep up? To keep them interacting with technology, bring them to the computer lab for small group reading...
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We Play Music

For Teachers K - 2nd
Do you like music? Have your youngsters read We Play Music, practicing select reading strategies, like using picture clues to determine new words. Then, after their first independent read, have them re-read the story to a...
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Irregular Word Fluency, Smack the Wall

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice decoding irregular words. In this irregular word fluency instructional activity, students read the irregular words from the word wall. Students listen to the teacher read an irregular word and smack the word on the word...
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
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Guided Reading: Flora's Box

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers consider text-to-self connections. Learners discover the text-to-self connection as they read Flora's Box by Tina Althaide. They practice high frequency words, prepositions, and 1:1 correspondence.
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Literacy Lesson: Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Here is a wonderful lesson designed for students with special needs. This well-thought-out lesson uses Big Books, familiar stories, and has a lot of review learning built into it. The book, The Keeping Quilt is used in the main part of...
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Double-Letter Word Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the concept of double letter words. In this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use letter cards to form double letter words.
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Speeding into Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice reading different materials to increase their fluency. Individually, they are given a race car and they move their car forward depending how well they have read different excerpts. To end the lesson plan, they take...
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Language Arts: Leaping with Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students improve fluency skills by reading word cards presented to them by the teacher. Through a demonstration by the teacher, they note the difference between fluency and non-fluency. Both as a group and then individually, students...
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Fluency is Freedom!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson plan. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as...
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First Graders, Fluency and FUN!

For Teachers 1st
First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. For this language arts lesson, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the meaning of the...
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Irregular Word Fluency

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by participating in a word fluency activity. In this irregular word activity, students discuss the sounds that are made from different words as they read them from flash cards. Students shuffle the flash...
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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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Counting Words in a Sentence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Combine numbers and pre-reading by counting the words in a sentence. Kindergartners  begin by counting objects in the room, putting a counter down for each number. Do this a few times to get them confident with the skill before...
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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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Irregular Word Fluency, Memory

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Practice reading because practice makes perfect! In this sentence building lesson, young readers play the game Memory using word cards. They play in small groups to match words and use the words correctly in a sentence. This lesson...
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The Seeds We Need

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners apply word analysis skills to recognize new words, identify genres of fiction and nonfiction, and identify important themes and topics. They explore differences in plants, flowers, and vegetables. A book bag full of activities...
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Expression Makes Reading Exciting!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars examine how reading with expression makes stories more interesting by listening to a reading in monotone and one with expression. Reading in pairs, they practice with passages of Judith Voirst's, Alexander and the...
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Lee and the Bee Flee to the Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice the strategy of decoding to become fluent readers with young scholars. They interact with the correspondence ee=/E/ as it deals with speech and text. The tongue twister, "Why did Lee and the bee flee to the tree?," is also...
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What Do You See at the Pond?

For Teachers K - 2nd
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice the strategy of reading fluently with expression with the story "Who took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?" They read and reread the story utilizing different strategies when stuck on a word. Students practice whole...
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Ready to Race

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice techniques to help them be able to read faster, smoother and with expression. They read and reread a text in order to become more familiar with the words in the passage. Each student is given a copy of "Caps for Sale,"...
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"Fast As Fast Can Be..."

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice strategies on becoming better fluent readers by repeated readings and by becoming phonemically aware of reading whole sentences with expression and emotion. They read the books, "The Skeleton on the Bus," "Don't Worry,"...
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A Fine, Fine Reader

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice reading more fluently by giving them experience reading various character parts in a story and expressing the attitude of their character. They interact with the book, "A Fine, Fine School," by Sharon Creech as well as...

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