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During Reading Strategies (Prediction, Self-Question, and Correct)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to predict, self-question, and correct.
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Reading for Meaning

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners answer questions to a worksheet called Connect with Cultural Connections in order to read for meaning. In this read for meaning lesson plan, students read and answer 5 comprehension questions.
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Reading Log

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after reading books in Language Arts, complete a database to assist them with book reports.
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Reading for Information

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore different strategies for reading with a purpose utilizing information before, during and after reading selections. They find out about a topic of interest and then find a text that contains that interest and analyze that...
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Strategies Used During Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students try a variety of reading strategies. In this reading strategy lesson, students read a nonfiction passage and put Post -Its to mark the spots where they are using a reading strategy. They focus on inferring, predicting,...
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Reading Comprehension—Chinese Stretch to Catch up with Teenage Model

For Students 10th - 12th
For this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read an essay entitled, "Chinese Stretch to Catch Up With Teenage Model." They answer 5 multiple choice comprehension and 8 matching questions based on the reading.
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Cloze Passage: A Boiler Explosion

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this boiler explosion cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Cloze Passage: Clouds and Rain

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this clouds and rain cloze procedure learning exercise, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Cloze Passage: Cried "Wolf!"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fiction cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Cloze Passage: Mammals in the Sea

For Students 3rd - 5th
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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Cloze Passage: Watches from Switzerland

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this watches from Switzerland cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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During Reading Strategies (Inferring)

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students practice their reading skills. In this reading fluency and comprehension lesson plan, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to make inferences based on the selections. 
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Cloze Passage: Extra Senses

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this extra senses cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Look, Read, and Write

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this sentences worksheet, students look at the pictures, read the sentences, and write the sentences. Students write 8 simple sentences.
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Dandelion Wine: Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Prior to reading chapter 17 of Dandelion Wine, partners look up and illustrate level three words found in Colonel Freeleigh’s many allusions. Pairs then share with the whole class. Detailed instructions for the activity are included. 
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Chunking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice is a great way to build skills in reading with fluency and intonation. In leveled pairs, learners read a simple passage pausing as indicated by the marks on the page. They take turns reading the passage until they are both...
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Word Roots 7: SPECT, STA, VERT Beginner Context Story 1

For Students 7th - 12th
Read this paragraph out loud to your class to demonstrate pronunciation of and introduce context for the given vocabulary words. You might also use this as a cloze activity and have class members read each vocabulary word or repeat each...
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ELA High-Frequency Sight Words

For Teachers K
Read high frequency words and rearrange scrambled sentences in order to make proper sentences with pupils. They will also practice oral fluency by reading a word assigned to them. These activities reinforce reading fluency and vocabulary...
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What's that Mammal?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learning by example is always effective if it's paired with independent practice opportunities! Model good reading practices for your class. Learners listen to the teacher model examples of reading with voice, expression, and tone...
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Using Harmonic Vision’s Music Ace Software to Reinforce Basic Music Skills

For Teachers K
If you have access to Harmonic Vision’s Music Ace Software, then this lesson could work for you. Kindergarteners use the video music software to place, identify, and read musical notes. They listen in and identify both high and low...
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Where The Forest Meets The Sea

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Join a father and his son as they explore an isolated location off the coast of Australia in the children's book Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker. Engage young learners in reading this fun story with this series of...
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The Tell-Tale Heart

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Readers listen and critically read fictional prose to answer prediction questions at designated stopping points, and then they give a summary of the short story. This lesson is ideal for English language learners developing English...
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Lesson 11 BL Group

For Teachers K - 1st
Three different groups work simultaneously in this activity. One group works on sight word review by holding up common words on flashcards and passing them around in a circle. Another group reviews word blending by pulling graphemes out...
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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create tables in a word processing program which helps them organize their text clues when reading a mystery story. They develop reading comprehension strategies while using a computer based graphic organizer in order to solve...