Students review basic reading decoding. Given books at their independent reading level, they read independently and with several different partners to increase reading fluency. They see how many more words per minute they can read after...

Pupils review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase their...

First graders identify words with the "sh" pattern. They participate in phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation exercises. As the assessment portion of the instructional activity, they may write a story...

Students practice and utilize phonograms (word families) found in the patterns of frequently used words. They assess strategies to assist them in dividing long words as well as to develop their phonemic awareness to new vocabularies....

Young scholars practice recognizing the value of digraphs to reading and becoming fluent readers. This lesson covers dge=/j/ by familiarizing themselves with the digraph, pronouncing it and reading words that use the digraphs. They...

Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding, chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...

Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...

Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...

Student improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, students to complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute and record their progress after each...

Students form the ability to be able to read text smoothly, expressively, and faster. By being able to do this, students are able to concentrate more on the comprehension of the text instead of on the decoding of each individual word....

Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...

Get your scholars excited about phonemes using Mico the puppet; they use the picture cards to examine three words at a time. Mico says the ending sound of one of the words, and learners determine which of them is a match. You'll want to...

Practice makes perfect when it comes to reading fluency! Walk your emerging readers through a familiar passage, slowly pointing to each word to keep every learner with you. While looking at a projected passage, scholars read one word at...

Pupils play a card game where they match the meaning of the word to the word or its prefix/suffix. They listen for the teacher to call out the definition and, with two players facing off, the first one to slap the correct card wins! Kids...

Students form words using prefixes.  In this prefix lesson, students compete in a "prefix challenge" to see which team can combine a set of twelve prefixes with a set of twelve words fastest.  Students enter their words in...

The Pledge of Allegiance, the Gettysburg Address, the National Anthem, and the Preamble to the Constitution all get close attention in an exercise that asks learners to rewrite these formally-worded documents into informal language....

The second lesson plan in a unit of 15 introduces pupils to text compression. The class begins with discussing how they already use text compression when sending text messages. Pairs learn more about the subject as they work to compress...

Young historians conduct a close reading of the text of an interview with Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves who taught herself to read, grew up to establish schools for other Black women, and went on to become an advisor...

Students mix colors and expand a painting stroke vocabulary.

Students explore the history of our mail system. In this postal lesson plan, students evaluate mail as a means of communication, create a mail system in their classroom where they can send and receive mail. Once the students receive...

First graders read words with a silent E at the end. In this literacy lesson, the teacher explains how the silent E changes the sound a vowel makes, then students practice reading words. Students complete a worksheet with the teacher for...

Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. In this decoding lesson, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.

Students explore encoding systems and decoding technology. In this barcoding lesson students examine how coding impacts society including distribution, and inventory. 

First graders practice reading words that contain a silent letter. In this silent letter words lesson plan, 1st graders look at words on the board such as lamb, sock, and knee and practice reading them without pronouncing one of the...