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Curated OER

Fluency Passages, 4th Grade

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Support your fourth graders on the long and difficult journey to fluent reading with this collection of reading passages. Designed as fluency assessments, these short texts help learners of varying abilities improve their reading skills.
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Curated OER

Fluency Passages, 5th Grade

For Students 5th Standards
Assess reading fluency with a variety of reading passages. Each passage is a few paragraphs long and focuses on a particular topic. A couple of comprehension questions are paired with each passage.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Ready . . . Set . . . Read! Teaching Reading Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
There are many activities and lesson ideas that teachers can use to reinforce reading fluency skills. This article brings a variety of strategies to light, including how to incorporate fluency instruction within novel units and...
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Curated OER

Reading Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Aid readers in achieving fluency! Hone in on appropriate pacing, accurate pronunciation, and varied intonation through modeling and ample practice. In one-minute bursts, individuals rehearse reading a passage aloud, recording where they...
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Curated OER

Fifth Grade Fluency Practice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Fluency is crucial to reading success. This lesson provides a great technique for increasing fluency. Using Inspiration or Garage Band, learners record themselves reading a passage at their reading level and repeat the process to monitor...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Connected Text, Practice and Read

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
A reading activity boosts scholars' level of fluency while reading connected text. Working collaboratively, pairs read a word list three times and a specific text while their partner gauges their accuracy and speed.
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Race into Fluency!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Elementary learners practice reading short passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs to do repeated readings of Jane and Babe, recording their times. They switch roles and time one another in an effort to decrease the amount...
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Millard South Patriots

Trait Practice: Sentence Fluency

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Do your young writers need a little help varying their sentence structure? Have them work on common errors, sentence fluency, and writing patterns with a series of language arts activities. The resource includes reading passages as well...
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Activity
Shell Education

A Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
How much do your learners know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Set up an opportunity for kids to learn about Dr. King while practicing reading fluency with a reader's theater activity. The script is for four voices and includes...
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Achieve3000

Oral Reading Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Accuracy, phrasing, flow, and pace, the four traits of of oral reading fluency, are the focus of a series of exercises that are designed to help readers develop these comprehension and literacy skills.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Chunked Text, Reading Chunks

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
The activity focuses on reading chunked text. Peers grouped by specific ability levels take turns reading a text with proper intonation, expression, and phrasing.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cinco De Mayo: ELD Reading and Language-Building

For Students 5th - 10th
A brief passage about the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo is accompanied by an array of language activities for ELD: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing,...
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Curated OER

Reading Aloud

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Reading aloud is a great way to engage learners in pacing and pronunciation! They practice using voice, pitch and intonation correctly. The teacher introduces the lesson by example, correctly stressing punctuation and using appropriate...
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Curated OER

Poe's Poetry and Prosody

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Motivate your class with this lesson! Learners use passages from Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to practice reading fluency. They read "The Raven" as a rap song to better understand the rhyming patterns and pauses.  
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fast Fact-Finding

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Ever wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main points,...
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Lesson Planet Article
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The Reading Boost: How Technology Bolsters Literacy

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Online technologies can foster increased reading comprehension and motivate learning.
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Worksheet
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International Dance Day: Reading and Activities for ELD

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief passage about International Dance Day, April 29, is accompanied by an array of language activities based in sound ELD practice: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL/ELD: Learning about Ash Wednesday

For Students 5th - 10th
An overview of the history and tradition of Ash Wednesday in 2 paragraphs is accompanied by an array of language activities: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Tell-Tale Heart

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Readers listen and critically read fictional prose to answer prediction questions at designated stopping points, and then they give a summary of the short story. This lesson is ideal for English language learners developing English...
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Map Me a Paragraph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
There are so many great reading strategies. In this instructional activity, learners practice decoding. They break down two paragraphs to analyze and determine main ideas and details. They each observes ways to model as they map their...
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Curated OER

Self-Assessment: Habits of Effective Readers, Writers, Speakers, Listeners, and Viewers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study how to read fluently. In this reading lesson plan, 5th graders practice reading and recording any miscues. Students time each other and graph their progress each day.
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Curated OER

Picture This!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice the strategy of visualization to aid in their reading comprehension of text. They paint mental pictures from readings from their history books, "The World and Its People: the US and It's Neighbors," and short stories...
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Breaking News English

More People to Stick to New Year's Resolutions

For Teachers 4th - 8th
What makes a good New Year's resolution? Practice goal-setting and reading comprehension with a set of language arts activities. English learners work on cloze passages, synonym matches, interviewing exercises, and comprehension...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read and answer questions. Students read a short passage and answer six questions about what they just read.

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