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Oral Reading Fluency: Reading Text with Appropriate Phrasing and Proper Expression

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Understanding punctuation is a vital part of reading with appropriate phrasing and proper expression. Second graders take care to emphasize each sentence and phrase they are reading based on punctuation. They read as a class and then on...
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I Feel the Need to Read!: Growing Independence and Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 4th
This series of activities lets the class observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for decoding and reading fluently with expression. They listen to the teacher read passages from If You Give a Pig a Pancake with and without...
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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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Drama: The New Friends

For Teachers 2nd
Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...
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At Lightning Speed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Review how to decode words and practice repeated readings for fluency. Kids review the cover-up method as a way to decode unknown words and then practice reading sentences for fluency and short passages with partners. They record their...
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Running Towards Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They are timed during each reading and graph and compare their results.
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Fantastic Fluency!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students participate in repeated readings of an assigned passage to increase their reading fluency. They are assisted in their reading by seeing the words and hearing them read while working with a partner. After practicing, they read...
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Language Arts: Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars increase fluency through repeated reading exercises. In groups, they practice reading sentences prior to reading the book, "Jane and Bob." Individually, students read parts to the teacher who notes expression,...
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The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...
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Chunking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice is a great way to build skills in reading with fluency and intonation. In leveled pairs, learners read a simple passage pausing as indicated by the marks on the page. They take turns reading the passage until they are both...
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Climb to Faster Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils participate in repeated reading activities to improve their fluency after listening to the teacher model fluent and non-fluent reading. They work with a partner to complete repeated reading of sentences and books while being...
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Because of Winn-Dixie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Take an in-depth look at a passage from Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie. Included here is the reading passage as well as a step-by-step procedure for reading the text, a set of text-dependent questions, and a final writing...
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Edison Tried and Tried Again

For Students K - 2nd Standards
How many times did it take Thomas Edison to invent a successful working lightbulb? Young learners read a short passage about this famous inventor and his determination in getting an idea to work successfully. Then, pupils respond to four...
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Ready to Race

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice techniques to help them be able to read faster, smoother and with expression. They read and reread a text in order to become more familiar with the words in the passage. Each student is given a copy of "Caps for Sale,"...
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"So What Are You Trying To Say Here?"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students exercise the strategy of summarization to recall important information in a text. They read to summarize the passage, "Ways the Ocean Helps Us," by Katherine Jones Carter, from "Oceans." Each student follows a list of...
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Reading Text with Appropriate Phrasing and Proper Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Practice reading with expression and appropriate phrasing with a scaffolded lesson. There is a detailed script here for you, but you could easily use it simply as an outline. Begin by modeling effective reading by displaying a large-text...
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Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
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Haunted House

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Read alouds are great ways to build fluency, accuracy, and intonation. Each slide contains part of a story about a haunted house and audio of the story being read aloud by several different children. Whether you use it as a reading...
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Here Is A Nest

For Students 2nd Standards
Answer the what, the how, and the why in a reading passage about a hen and her chicks. Readers use the text as a basis for finding the exact answers within the passage.
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The Bomb

For Students 2nd Standards
Second graders read a brief passage about King Charles XII of Sweden who lived over 200 years ago. Then, they respond to four short answer questions about what they read.
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Expression Makes Reading Exciting!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine how reading with expression makes stories more interesting by listening to a reading in monotone and one with expression. Reading in pairs, they practice with passages of Judith Voirst's, Alexander and the Terrible,...
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Racy Readers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of reading fluently, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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The Big Green Monster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They complete center activities in groups of four in order to aid in decoding and...
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Speedy Gonzales Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate their fluency through repeated readings. They review what a fluent reader is and practice decoding through cross-checking and covering unknown words. They work in pairs to read a passage several times and record...

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