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Read Works

Read Works: A Sticky Idea

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the history of Band-Aids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Family Ties Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Contains plans for five lessons that teach students to make authentic connections to reading selections. Lessons use books such as "Bigmama?s" by Donald Crews, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: National Poetry Month

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

A bunch of great poetry resources and lessons! Each lesson lists grade appropriateness. Although this site was created with national poetry month in mind, most of the lessons can be used any time of year.

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Read Works

Read Works: Wonderful Trees

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem about trees by Arin Lapa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works

Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.

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Read Works

Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: How to Teach Close Reading With Complex Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional video demonstrates ways to incorporate "close reading" with complex text. [56:53]

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Read Works

Read Works: The Harmonica

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

For this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words: Word Speed Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students check for speed and accuracy while reading word lists. Printable materials are provided.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Map It [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards

A lesson plan in which students use phoneme-grapheme mapping with a list of words. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Syllable Swap [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students build words with syllable cards. Materials are included.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This thematic language arts lesson plan uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary students learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic organizers introduces...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Looking at Writing: Second Grade

For Teachers 2nd Standards

In this section, you'll find writing assessment resources, writing strategies, and additional tip sheets for teachers and parents on how to help second graders build strong writing skills. You'll also find videos on teaching writing....

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly and...

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.

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Josie's Poems

Josie's Poems: "Expressing Ourselves"

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards

A poem about how animals communicate and how humans are different because of the way we can communicate.

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PBS

Pbs Kids: Fern's Poetry Club

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

An excellent site for children about the definition, examples, and types of poetry. Students can click nodes such as "What's a Poem?", "Read More Poems," or even "Write a Poem."

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Other

Rubric: Six Trait Assessment for Beginning Writers

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

Teachers will find this rubric useful in the classroom as a means of assessing student writing skills. It has a printer friendly version.

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Other

Sebastian Swan: Read a Book!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

Looking for a new way to get young students reading? This interactive reading site provides online stories and accompanying questions for students to explore.

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EL Education

El Education: Kids Book of Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Whitaker's Blends & Digraphs Choice Board

For Students 2nd Standards

A nine-part learning module with videos and web links to teach phonics reading and spelling skills involving blends and digraphs.

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