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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify Important Info When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Links to self-assessment activities for content area fluency activities are found on this resource. Students will read, time themselves, and record facts. Students will improve their reading rates and levels of comprehension.
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A (Simplified) Midsummer Night's Dream for Ell Readers

For Students 9th - 10th
A simplified version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" developed for English language learners by an ESL teacher.
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Hopelink

Reading Lesson: Reading Accuracy Check

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
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Lecturas in Ingles Traducidas / English Readings

For Students 9th - 10th
Great way to practice English with this beautiful selection of short excerpts from literature classics like the Jungle Book, Sherlock Holmes, or the Cask of the Amontillado. Each text includes comprehension exercises with answers and...
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Esl Reader English Reading Help for Esl Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...
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University of Oregon

Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The goal for teachers from the academic content standards is every child to be reading by 3rd grade. This site will help teachers to teach the "big ideas" in reading: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: 5 Surefire Strategies for Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Improve students' fluency by doing the following in the classroom: "Model Fluent Reading," "Do Repeated Readings in Class," "Promote Phrased Reading in Class," "Enlist Tutors to Help Out," and "Try a Reader's Theater in Class."
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Austin Independent School District

The Reading Teacher: Oral Reading Fluency [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A research-based article about oral reading fluency and its correlation with reading comprehension. Includes information about different fluency development materials, how to use screening tests to show areas of concern or to track...
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How to Read Poetry Aloud

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Step-by-step directions are provided about how to read poetry aloud.
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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a list of wards from a passage three times and then take turns reading the passage while focusing on speed and accuracy.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Star and a Wish

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Reading: Recognizing Letters and Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the importance of alphabetic sequence and using common letter patterns to support fluency. For adult learners.
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Lauri Fried Lee: Readings for Esl Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a list of links to leveled, adapted readings for the English language learner. It provides self-scoring comprehension questions to accompany each story.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Quick and Easy Word Study Routine [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
When older students struggle with decoding difficult words, the word study routine described in this slide presentation can teach them to chunk bigger words into smaller parts to learn pronunciation skills.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Color Songs [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight colorful charts each contain a song about a color. While singing along with the class students increase reading fluency and learn to use picture clues.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Auburn University provides great, simple tips for young readers working to improve their ability to read and speak fluently. There are two methods outlined for improving oral fluency: "The direct approach," and "The indirect approach,"...
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Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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US Department of Education

The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Reading Fluency

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Reading Fluency."