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Reading: Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 2
In this reading for information activity, learners read a one page text about the Olympic Jamaican bobsledding team. Students answer 6 multiple choice questions.
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Read and Review
Learners create presentations to discuss a book they've read using a video format. In this reading and speech lesson plan, students video tape a presentation about a book they've written a summary for. Learners then produce an in-house...
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Free Reading Project
Students participate in a free reading project to improve their reading skills. In this reading project lesson plan, students spend 30 minutes reading each day and complete journal entries for the lesson plan. Students complete a short...
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Speed Read
Students practice reading and rereading in order to increase their fluency with speed and accuracy. They review how to decode words and to reread selections so that they become more familiar with reading. Next, they read "James and the...
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ESL: All About My Body
In this ESL body parts learning exercise, students look at 7 pictures of body parts, read a phrase, and decide if it is true or false. They read phrases such as "This is my leg," and decide if it is true or false.
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All About Reptiles
Students examine different kinds and characteristics of reptiles, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Nascar Reading
Students listen to sentences read with fluency and without to determine which sounds better. Next, with a partner or in a small group they practice reading a book three times. Finally, as an assessment, they read the book while being...
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All About Birds
In this birds worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about birds to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 7 questions total.
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Reading: Job Opening – Assistant Tour Guide
In this vocabulary and reading skills worksheet, students fill in the blanks in a job advertisement by selecting the words in the word bank.
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Guided Reading: Jump Rope
Young scholars blend phonemes to decode words. For this guided reading lesson, students evaluate different comprehension strategies to aid reading. Young scholars make predictions based on picture clues and use patterned sentences...
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Cloze Passage: Mammals in the Sea
In this mammals in the sea cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Using Tableaux Vivants in Much Ado About Nothing
Students use tableaux vivants to engage in the Much Ado About Nothing playIn this tableax vivants lesson, students read the scen from the play and discuss the key elements in terms of character revelation and action. Students work...
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Reading Review for Grade 4 (4.2)
In this reading review for grade 4 (4.2) worksheet, 4th graders answer 25 multiple choice comprehension questions in standardized test format from 6 passages.
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Fourth Grade Reading
In this reading worksheet, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions by reading 1/2 page passages and answering comprehension questions. Students complete 25 questions.
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Read and Get Smart
Use the class textbook to read a full story about Martin Luther King, Jr. The class writes facts about him and outlines his life, then they read the author and illustrator summaries at the end of the story. They compare and contrast the...
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Stackers Game for Word Fluency
Explore words by building and decoding three-letter words. Real or nonsense words can be formed with the alphabet tiles. Practice fluency and blending sounds with CVC patterns.
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Food Is Our Fuel
After studying a short article about how living things fuel their growth, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions based on the article.
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The All-American Slurp
Explore Chinese culture and customs with your class and allow them time to connect and compare their own experiences with experiences of character a from the short story The All-American Slurp. They create a short presentation on some...
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Christmas Song Visual Supports
Singing is a great way to reinforce memorization and reading skills. Read the song while showing the associated images, talk about each picture, show the image while the song is playing to reinforce the word to sound connection. This...
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Question What You Read
Readers test their reading comprehension after reading a nonfiction text about Paleo Indians. (This text is in Alabama: It's History and Geography, but other texts can be used.) After reading the nonfiction article as a class, they...
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Expressive Eloquent Experts
What does it mean to read expressively? Beginning readers hear examples of expressive reading and partner up to practice. One partner reads The Littlest Pumpkin and the other partner reads Franklin and his Friend. While...
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Fortune and the Beggar
Enhance reading comprehension strategies with a tale about a beggar's run in with a fortune. Scholars read, answer comprehension questions, and consider the moral of the story.
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Comprehension: Identify the Main Idea from Text
Children in first grade listen and read along with the teacher to practice main idea identification. They use the provided reading passages to read, locate the main idea and supporting details. This is a fully scripted lesson which means...
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Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water
How does San Francisco supply its citizens with enough water, even during a drought? Learn about reservoirs and why desalination could be a good solution with a reading passage about water conservation. After kids finish the...