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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Guided Reading Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
The benefits of guided reading are plentiful! Students will have increased fluency, an expanded vocabulary, stronger phonemic awareness, and a greater motivation to read. Use the following PDF as a template for your guided reading lesson.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Sample Guided Reading Lesson [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading lesson where students can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion questions,...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features a guided reading lesson plan for "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie." It features a materials lists and a lesson plan.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Features of Literary & Informational Text to Guide Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Getting Started With Guided Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do you get started with guided reading? At this site one can find the answer to this question. The online lesson plans will help get students started with guided reading.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Guided Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Real Life Reading Materials

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this reading lesson is to offer a reading and comprehension lesson based on real-life reading materials. This gives students the opportunity to gain reading comprehension skills from real-life reading material.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for two lessons that examine different translations of "Beowulf" in order to study the nature of translation and examine the verse structure of the original text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Questioning a Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Reading

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, students practice using them in small-group guided reading. In addition...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 2nd Read

For Teachers K
In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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CPALMS

Moving on Up

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Self Questioning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Online lesson plan introduces students to the concept of self-questioning, assisting them in an understanding of question-answer relationships that should improve their reading comprehension skills. In-depth study will lead to improved...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Third Grade Reading: Stem Guide for Teachers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This resource provides 14 STEM Lessons for 3rd graders.
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Bless Me, Ultima

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, including historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show,...

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