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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"

For Teachers K - 4th
Students become fluent readers. They need plenty of time to practice reading familiar text in order to remember more words, read faster, smoother, and more expressively. Students reread familiar text, the more their reading skills with...
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Reading, Sharing, and Comparing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review the 2 Finger Rule for selecting an appropriate book and then check out a book they can read. They practice cross checking to make sure they understand what they are reading and then read quietly in a comfortable spot for...
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Learning to Read With Jet Speed

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
not a lesson Student's success in school depends on the accuracy at which they can read their materials in the expected amount of time. If students do not read accurately, quickly, and effortlessly they may fall behind their...
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Putting Reading first: Keys to Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders recognize what comprehension is and can explain the strategies they are using.  In this reading comprehension instructional activity, 2nd graders self assess the strategies they are using to comprehend a text.  Students...
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Disney's Magical Letters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students that are beginning readers distinguish between letters that are easily mixed up. Such as m and n, b and d. They work on reading fluency and letter recognition. The lesson is designed to help students who are struggling...
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Christmas Board Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students play a Christmas themed board game to review holiday vocabulary. They practice their fluency by talking in small groups about whatever the board game square topic brings up for no less than two minutes (or they must move back 3...
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Reader's Theater Script Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this reading worksheet, students perform a short reader's theater script based on the book Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. Students take a part in this 4 character play and read or perform it.
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Reader's Theater: If You Take a Mouse to School

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this reading worksheet, students participate in a 2 character reader's theater play based on the book If You Take a Mouse to School.
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Go, Speed Reader! Go!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the strategy of decoding words to advance from beginning readers to independent readers. They read and reread the book, "Sam the Garbage Hound," by Charnan Simon. Fluency checklists are kept for each child and are...
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I Feel the Need....The Need for Speed!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners first learn to decode when learning to read. Decoding each letter and phoneme in a sentence or even a short text takes a considerable amount of time. Students must drill to progress in the pace and level of their reading. In...
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Sight Words on a Snowy Evening

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their fluency...
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Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore language fluency by participating in a physical education activity. In this word family lesson, 2nd graders write commonly used word endings on different parts of a beach ball which is tossed between the students....
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Readers Theatre: The Three Snow Bears

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students dramatize the story, Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. In this readers theatre activity, students read the story and then dramatize the events during readers theatre. There is an included script.
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Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will write a story. For this writing and meteorology lesson, 2nd graders read the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then use KidPix to create a weather picture. The picture is imported into a word processor and the...
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Language Arts: Plotting Stories

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story, "The Foolish, Timid Rabbit," as part of a unit on appearances. After reading with partners, they write their own stories that include elements about some forms of matter from their science studies. Students...
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Introducing Nonfiction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to nonfiction text. In this five esson unti, students explore nonfiction as a genre. They identify the components and text structure of text structure of nonfiction text. Students read a nonfiction passage and...
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Chrysanthemum

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars identify the main story elements in the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. In this literacy lesson, students listen to the book and use a guided reading ball check for comprehension. Young scholars answer questions such...
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Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph the...
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore time management by participating in itinerary activities. For this time telling lesson, students identify how to read a clock, how to communicate the time to others and how to plan for events in the day. Students...
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Children Using Antonyms to Write Short Stories

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss what antonyms are and read the book, Quick as a Cricket.  In this antonym lesson, 2nd graders write a short story by describing themselves. 
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Nemo's Fast Swim

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars need to be come fluent readers and in order to do that they have to read faster, smoother and more expressively. They have to read accurate and automatic. Students gain fluency through repeated readings, timed readings,...
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Sound Boxes

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language fluency by identifying word segments. For this word structure lesson, students utilize words from their vocabulary lesson, dissect them into syllables and sound out their individual parts. Students participate...
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Reader's Theater Script

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this theater worksheet, students read a script from The Three Little Pigs. Students choose one of five characters to play (one of the three pigs, the wolf, or the farmer).

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