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I'm Bananas for Faster, Fluent Reading!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars review the way to use cover-ups to focus on vowels and decoding. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading a sentence slowly like a robot, and then a little faster each time, adding feeling and expression. They then...
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Rapid Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review sight recognition and blending by using an index card with one of the words from the word wall on it. They read a story aloud as a class and hold up their card when they hear their word and sing a song that allows them to...
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Reaching to Read

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reading to improve their reading pace. They read Bo and Rose. Students listen as the story is read at various speeds. They discuss how each sounded and what could be done to make it better. Students practice reading in...
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Silence: A Key to Successful Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore silent reading. They discuss how to choose their own reading materials and how to tell if a book is right for them. Students read a book silently to themselves for ten minutes. They write a message about what they...
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I Can Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to the explanation of the words expressively, smoothly, and quickly as being keys to fluent reading. They review some of the vowel sounds and identify them in different words and listen to some passages from The Rainbow...
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"Now I Can Read"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders divide into four groups taking turns as one person can read a book through once. They practice reading it again more smoothly with expression and then choose one of their favorite characters from the book. The members...
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Smooth Reading, Yeah!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore how to read fluently. They practice reading with more expression. Students read Arthur's Writing a Story. They discuss why it is important to read fluently. Students buddy read and then read as a class and fill out...
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Read like the Wind!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the strategy of rereading books to become fluent readers. They utilize pseudo words to recognize words effortlessly as well. Each student is given a copy of "Kite Day at Pine Lake," from Phonics Readers to read several...
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Learning to Read With Superman Speed

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice techniques to become more fluent readers by reading more proficiently and with faster speed. They stress mastery of the d=/d/, e=/e/ and de=/de/ sounds in spoken and written words. The book, "John Henry," by Julius...
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Tigers Run Fast, I Read Fast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students review what it means to be a fluent reader. With a partner, they practice reading and rereading the same material. They mark the time and record their improvement on a chart. They also count how many words they read in the...
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Speeding Into Fluent Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine what it means to be a fluent reader. They review the cover up method for decoding words and practice sentences as a fluent and disfluent reader. They work in partners and read a book three different times for one minute...
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American Expression

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students exercise the strategy of reading more fluently with expression through practice and recognizing punctuation marks when reading. They read with expression the book, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and a variety of...
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Not Just Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars work to improve their oral expression while reading aloud. They read and record an entire story with a partner and listen to the playback of the readings. They evaluate their expressive language using a given checklist.
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Out of Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice becoming a fluent reader by mastering the art of decoding unfamiliar words and sentences. Working with a partner, they read and reread "Froggy Eats Oats," by Jonathan London with a big palm tree, die-cut monkeys and a...
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Thumbs Up For Expert Readers!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the cross check strategy to increase reading comprehension in this lesson. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." The teacher purposely reads some words wrong so that the story does not make sense. ...
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Use Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice techniques to read expressively and fluently to be able to read smoothly, silently and avidly. They read and explore the book, "The Morning Queen," by Joy Cowley along with sentence strips. Each student is taught what...
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You Are What You Read

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders select a prose, poetry, or nonfiction excerpt from a book of their choice and share it by reading aloud to their classmates, who identify the genre and respond to related questions in their journals.
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Art About Me- The Skin You Live In

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners read the text The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. In this literacy lesson, students discuss the characters in the text and the various shades of skin they observed on each page. Learners read the beautiful descriptions of the...
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Word families accuracy

For Teachers 1st
First graders read new words that share the same rime as a word they already know.  In this word families lesson, 1st graders read words on index cards with the teacher, play a matching game with different rimes, and eventually read new...
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Blending Bumper Cars

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Given a card with a decodable word part, 1st graders add an initial consonant sound and blend the sounds to read the new word. They practice reading a...
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Sentence Completion: "My Library"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read a two paragraph story with eight missing words in it. They choose words from a word bank to correctly complete each sentence.
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It's About You

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars build connections between census information and community decision-making by reading a reader's theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice reading fluently and learn about the government. The...
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Cranking Cooky Cars

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice the strategy of phoneme awareness with special vocal gestures or sound with the correspondence /k/. They listen as the book, "ABC," by Dr. Seuss is read to them and then they work on a tongue twister and worksheets.
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My Weekend: Sentence Completion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, young scholars read two paragraphs that contain several missing words. Using the word bank provided, students choose the word to correctly complete each sentence.

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