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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Around Baseball Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting version of baseball to build fluency in creating rhyming words. The classroom is divided into two teams; when one team is up to bat the first student is given a word family such as -at. They must create a rhyming word and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: To Read or Not to Read

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the benefits of reading for pleasure including building experience, better standardized test scores, improved problem solving, provides pleasure, provides a language model, and develops thinking skills. It offers a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Outside Reading Made Fun

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to an "Outside Reading Made Fun" unit in which students select a book to read for pleasure, write journal questions, write an analytical essay, create a book project, and participate in a book discussion.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Pre Reading Huck Finn

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is a preparation for reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It discusses the popularity of the book and the fact that it is one of the most controversial novels ever published. It includes links to a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: The Fight With Grendel's Mother

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Beowulf's fight with Grendel's Mother. It features links to the text in Old English or Modern, the reading of Chapters XIX-XXI, and a British Library exercise in translating Old English.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: The Final Battle and Burial

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Beowulf's final battle and his funeral. It features links to various translations of Beowulf, the reading of Chapters XXXII - XXXVIII and XLIII, audio of "The Last Survivor's Speech" from Beowulf (lines 2241b-70a)...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Nonfiction Reading

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on students reading nonfiction works including excerpts from: Night by Elie Wiesel, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin...
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3 D Issue: On the Same Page by Janet Allen Intro Section

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Intro section (front material, introduction, Chapter 1) of Janet Allen's book On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades which includes teaching strategies, philosophies, student samples, and photographs.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Very Special Place

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction shares the story of a young girl living in an urban setting who had a wonderful imagination. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Welcome Home

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This narrative shares the story of a family that is being reunited with the mother after being away during deployment for several months. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Small Life

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a hamster and its first person account of what it sees. This passage is to be read aloud and reinforces essential comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Scared Tiger

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a scared cat who will not come down from a tree. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Class of Twins

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a Mr. Reed's class as they learn that everyone looks different, but everyone also looks alike. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: What Is a Talking Stick?

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text talking sticks and how Native Americans used it to take turns speaking. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Literature Circles: Lesson Plans and More

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What are the major roles in literature circles? Check out this site to learn more about the individual roles needed to form a literature circle. Includes links to various reading handouts and lessons.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Make a Big Book of Rhymes: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this teacher-led activity on this site, students work together in the classroom creating a book full of rhymes.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Memory Game: Identifying and Generating Rhming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game of "Memory" where the students flip over two cards at a time to try and match rhyming words. This site includes links to Rhyming Pictures to use to make the Memory cards.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Rhyme Rally Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity teaching students to identify whether it contains rhyming words. This site also contains links to Rhyming Books.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This strategy helps learners refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...

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