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Curated OER

Things About Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch as the teacher explains how to use a storyboard to plan a PowerPoint presentation. They examine how to use clip art, background colors, and at least one transition before creating a PowerPoint presentation according to the...
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Curated OER

The Time I Got Lost

For Teachers 3rd
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".
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Curated OER

Rainforest Problem

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a hypothetical story in order to create a context for the lesson. The story presents a problem that needs to be solved. They write a letter to a government official as part of the lesson.
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Curated OER

Soaring Through Space With a Kid Pix Slide Show

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a slide show on Kid Pix about space. In this space lesson plan, 1st graders will explore the earth, sun, moon, and planets. After exploring their motions and locations around the sun, they create a 4 page slide show...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson plan is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will write...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great exercise to help students practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Reading Connected Text Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans and stories to build reading fluency and accuracy. Choose from beginner readers to 80 word passages.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Phrase Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Learners will develop sentences with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Caught It!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, young scholars read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Different Ways of Looking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating Memorable Advice

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson young scholars learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems of Condition

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.

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