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Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Veteran's Day—Honoring All That Served

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th Standards
Looking for ideas on ways to recognize Veteran's Day? Check out this 92-page packet that includes exercises designed for all grade levels. Reading passages detail the history of the holiday, research projects get individuals involved in...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers K Standards
Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...
Printables
PreKinders

Duck in the Truck Flannel Board Set

For Teachers Pre-K - K
If you're reading Jez Alborough's Duck in the Truck, use these cute felt pieces to act out the story. The set features a duck, several animals, a truck, a rock, and a boat.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text

For Teachers K
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence. 
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DePaul University

Learn about Fables

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Expose young readers to a new genre of fiction with a short reading passage. After learning about fables, children identify the main idea and supporting details in preparation for writing a short summary. Read the text as a class,...
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Scholastic

Alpha Tales: The Pig's Picnic (Letter P)

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Penny, Polly, and Peter are planning a picnic but end up pigging out instead in this fun printable book. Including dozens of p-words and amusing illustrations, this is a great resource for teaching emergent readers about the sound...
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K12 Reader

What Is Gravity

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This cross-curricular reading comprehension worksheet asks kids to read a short passage about gravity and then to answer questions about the article.
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K12 Reader

Using Land in Different Ways

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
After reading about rural, urban, and suburban land use, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions using evidence from the provided passage.
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K12 Reader

What Is a Glyph?

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
After reading a short passage about glyphs, kids must follow the provided directions to create a star glyph.
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All for KIDZ

Giraffes Can’t Dance Concepts: Giraffes Can't Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Teach young children that with a little perseverance and the help of a good friend, anything is possible. This two-part lesson series based on the book Giraffe's Can't Dance starts with a shared reading about Gerald and...
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Scholastic

Point of View

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
The point of view in a story can dramatically change the story itself. Focus on finding the points of view in various reading passages with a language arts packet, which includes fiction and nonfiction text.
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

The 1:1 Transition: What to Read Before You Implement

For Teachers K - 12th
Capitalize on the wisdom, experience, and recommendations of those who have blazed the 1:1 trail.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Sound sorting can be a fun way to get little ones phonologically prepared for a life of reading. In this activity, learners sort picture cards based on the long or short vowel sound they make when said aloud.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme or No Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Rhyming is fun, builds phonemic awareness, and is a tried and true pre-reading skill. This activity helps learners identify words that rhyme. Young scholars listen to a song, locate a rhyming word they hear by clapping then draw a...
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Curated OER

Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas

For Teachers K - 2nd
You can keep this printable idea sheet and use when you're in a tight spot. It contains cross-curricular ideas that span every subject while relating to the African tale, "Anasazi the Spider." Learners will act, write, move, count,...
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Curated OER

Comprehension: Create a Summary from a Narrative Text

For Teachers 2nd
If your class can sequence events in a story, are pretty good at retell, and can identify the main point, they are probably ready for reading comprehension through summarizing. This lesson provides a teacher's script that facilitates...
Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Hundred Chart Digit Game

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Math games, especially in the primary grades, provide great opportunities for developing the number sense of young mathematicians. Working in pairs with a deck of single-digit cards, students take turns drawing two cards and reading the...
Worksheet
Get Reading Right

Picture and Word Cards

For Students K - 2nd
Reading and recognizing words with the long /e/ sound is enjoyable and accessible for all emerging readers with these picture and word cards. Print, laminate, and play games in small groups or with additional classroom...
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Museum of Disability

Don't Call Me Special

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Introduce young learners to the idea of disabilities and making friends with children who are different than they are. Using Don't Call Me Special - A First Look at Disability by Pat Thomas, learners are guided through the new...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Syllable Hopscotch

For Teachers K - 1st
Let your little learners move while they practice breaking words into syllables or chunks. Place a hopscotch "board" on the floor (this can be done with tape). Your class takes turns choosing picture cards, and then they say the name of...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Letter Recognition: Poetry Pen

For Teachers K - 1st
It's always nice to have a great idea and all the tools to make it happen. The class can use these nursery rhyme and alphabet cards to teach each other letter recognition and letter sound correspondence. There is a full set of alphabet...
Writing
Curated OER

Marking Time

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Two narrative excerpts tell the same story from different points of view. In the first excerpt (first person), sequencing words and phrases are bolded and learners write down what the bold type does. The second excerpt is in third...
Activity
Curated OER

Book Nook

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
A reading of Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days provides a great intro for a discussion of colors and how they can represent emotions and moods. Kids share the feelings they associate with various colors
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Achieve3000

Discriminating Phonemes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness instructional activity. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities,...

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