Curated OER
Online Newspaper Search
Students use the Internet to research an article. When they find an article they like, it be printed and they highlight the important information and present to the class.
Curated OER
Keyboard Buddies in my Community
Second graders utilize Microsoft Word to create stationery and letters to send to other children in their school building, expressing experiences in their daily lives. As the unit progresses, they create documents to send to other second...
Curated OER
Lizards
Fourth graders recall lizards from the text and report their important traits. The teacher adds the information to the map. They watch the map expand while it organizes all of the lizards and their characteristics.
Curated OER
The Other Tall Tales
Students research many different tall tales. They retell the tale in their own words and create an orginal tale of their own. They share their tall with the class along with illustrations.
Curated OER
Memories
Fifth graders collect artifacts of their fifth grade school year and make a technology based Memory Book.
Curated OER
The Time I Got Lost
Third graders go through the writing process but substitute paper and pencil with the computer to create a story about "The Time I Got Lost".
Curated OER
Tell Me a Whopper!
Sixth graders investigate tall tales as a literary genre. They listen to a number of tall tales to discover how exaggeration is used as a story element. They write and publish a tall tale using word processing software. They illustrate...
Curated OER
Circumlocution
Learners describe unfamiliar objects and situations using existing vocabulary and circumlocution techniques.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Share "The Fight" Oral Fluency Practice
This module provides a reading fluency lesson. To help second grade students improve their reading fluency, teachers will use Helen Moore's poem "The Fight" during the lesson.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Reading Fluency
This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Scholastic
Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency
Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Reading Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
An online lesson for middle school students concerning learning reading fluency through oral interpretation. Students read poetry aloud in presentation-form and work together at interpreting the poem, increasing understanding of meaning...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
Auburn University provides great, simple tips for young readers working to improve their ability to read and speak fluently. There are two methods outlined for improving oral fluency: "The direct approach," and "The indirect approach,"...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Repeated Readings
This is a lesson for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
Hopelink
Reading Lesson: Reading Accuracy Check
ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Reading Fluency
This lesson plan has students practice two methods to become more fluent in silent reading.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Listen!
This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Star and a Wish
In this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!
In this lesson plan, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help learners explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
This lesson guides students through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.