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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Connected Text, Express It!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Partners practice reading fluency by reciting sentence strips to each other with proper expression and intonation. Partner A chooses a strip at random and reads it silently, then aloud with expression. Partner B reads the same sentence...
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Reading Resource

Going to the Movies (Basic Code Sentences)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Take a pretend trip to the movies with a series of basic code sentences. Images of movie tickets, popcorn buckets, and movie cameras award learners varying amounts of points for each sentence that they can successfully read.
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Comic Life With Kenzuke's Kingdom

For Teachers 3rd
Kenzuke's Kingdom is a wonderful adventure about a boy sailing around the world, it's also the focus of this lesson. Students read the novel as a class then use the Comic Life website to create a two-page comic based on the story. This...
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Teaching Appositives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore appositives, phrases that immediately follow the noun they modify, using sentence strips, examples, and collaborative learning. The class works together to identify appositives and use commas to properly punctuate them. Partners...
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For the Teachers

Story Strips Sequencing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What happens next? Work on story sequence with a lesson plan that prompts kids to put a story back in order. Additionally, they discuss what would happen if one event was missing from the sequence.
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Bottle Top Sentences

For Teachers K
Students practice language. In this vocabulary expansion lesson plan, students match words on a sentence strip. They work independently to recognize and correlate words in a sentence to individual words out of sequence. This lesson plan...
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Sentence Train

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What child doesn't like trains? Use this fun idea to practice writing. Young readers learn to write complete sentences by using a train graphic organizer made out of construction paper. Each section of the train (engine, boxcar, and...
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Recipe for Sensational Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 7th
'Cook-up' sensational sentences with your class. They expand sentences by adding more descriptive words. Then discuss the importance of using appropriate grade level language in daily speaking and writing.
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PPT
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Sentence Clarity

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Give your sentences more clarity by learning to avoid misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, and the passive voice. Review parallel structure as well. Plenty of examples are shown, providing utmost clarity.
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Worksheet
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Writing Conventions: Complete Sentences

For Students 1st - 2nd
Practice composing complete sentences with your class. Sentence starters and endings are written on different strips that learners can paste together to create a complete sentence! Get your pupils familiar with complete sentences with...
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Worksheet
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 3

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight word bingo game involving the sight words can, find, for, here, one, red, run, see, up and yellow. Students match sight words to sentence strips to practice using sight words...
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Worksheet
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight words bingo game involving the sight words a, and, I, it, is, in, the, big, look, and my. Students match the sight words to sentence strips to practice using sight words in...
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Sequencing / Story Events

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read a story and use sentence strips to order story events.  In this sequencing instructional activity, students learn new vocabulary words centered around the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, preview the story, make...
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Develop a Paragraph

For Students 6th - 8th
Need a recipe for a paragraph? Young writers cook up the opening paragraph for a speech on food preparation. They prepare by reading the directions and cutting out the provided sentence strips. Then, they mix up the strips and paste the...
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Activity
Reading Resource

Cars Puzzles (Basic Code Sentences)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Vroom vroom into reading skills! Bring a set of reading puzzles based on Disney's Cars to your special education or mainstream class. Each strip features a code sentence with the same vowel sound, and when kids put the strips together,...
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Worksheet
Cambridge University Press

Scrambled Dialog

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
How does a conversation flow? Have your learners practice with conversation and dialogue by asking them to rearrange sentence strips in order to make a coherent conversation between two people. After ordering the strips, pairs listen to...
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Take Apart Sentences

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the two main parts of sentences, subject and predicate. They, in groups, mix up their sentence strips and then place them face down and have a contest to see which group can rebuild the sentences correctly in the...
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Strip-Teasers: A Collaborative Writing activity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young writers engage in a fun writing activity. They write three different sentences on three strips of paper. Then they get into groups of three, and take a look at all nine sentences that have been written. Their task is to write a...
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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building lesson plan, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the sentence....
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Sentence Elaboration with Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore language arts by reading an English related story. In this sentence structure lesson, students identify prepositions and discuss how to utilize them effectively in sentence writing. Students read the story "A Day at the...
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Printables
Curriculum Corner

Camping Literacy Pack

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Increase camping vocabulary just in time for summer with a camping themed literacy pack. Use word cards and sentence cards to enhance fluency, build vocabulary, and strengthen writing skills. The activities are perfect for centers,...
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Comic Strip Context Clues

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create dialogue for a comic strip using context clues to match the text to the pictures. They use comic blanks imbedded in this activity. They write dialogue for each frame. Remind them to use the picture clues when...
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Writing
E Reading Worksheets

Don't Tell. Show!

For Students 3rd - 8th
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Order of Events

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and put the events of the story in order. Each event is written on a sentence strip and while the teacher reads, listeners can arrange the strips inthe correct order. After reading, reshuffle the...

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