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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Choosing the Correct Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students ask themselves questions while reading to comprehend the material and improve their memory. They should ask why, when, where and how questions when they are reading an article. Students explore the different strategies on what...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sound Spin Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Builds students' abilities to identify the sound of a letter and say if a word begins with that sound. The student spins a wheel and says what letter/sound it stops on. Then they find a picture that begins with that sound. This site...
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Interactive
Free Reading

Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A quick alphabet game for the whole class. Students stand in a circle and throw a beanbag to each other. When they catch it, they must say a word that begins with the letter given. Continue this in alphabetical order.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Long Vowel Choice Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An entertaining, whole class game to build the accuracy of the students' abilities to identify the sounds of different vowels. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build learners' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting activity for the whole class to practice listening for a specific letter sound. When they hear a word with the sound they are listening for they give it a thumbs up; if it doesn't have the sound, they give it a thumbs down....
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that students play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Beginning Sounds; Poem

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity that can be adapted for the whole class, small group, or large group. The instructor first reviews a letter and its sound, then presents the group with a poem with that letter that the students will then identify.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: "I Spy" Letter Sound Accuracy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this game of "I Spy" to help students build their accuracy of letter identification! Can be student- or teacher-led.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Author's Purpose

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on identifying the author's purpose.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Graphic Organizers

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section teaches students to use graphic organizers.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Probable Passage

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section provides help in using the "probable passage" technique to aid comprehension. In addition, links are available to...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section on semantic features helps students recognize supporting details as they read.
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Story Mapping

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section focuses on story mapping, which helps students put events of a story in sequential order.