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Ready, Set, Read!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine how to become more efficient readers by practicing repeated readings. They listen as the teacher models both non-fluent and fluent reading before working with a partner to read assigned sentences a number of times. They...
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The Rainbow Fish: Activities for Parents to Do with Children at Home

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister's award-winning story about the joys of sharing, is the inspiration for this resource loaded with fun. Suggestions for language and language arts, math, science, and social studies activities are...
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A Weave of Woods

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Focus on vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis while reading A Weave of Woods, a colorful picture book by Robert D. San Souci. Young learners use worksheets to preview, predict, practice paraphrasing, and make comparisons. The...
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Reader's Theater Exercise

For Teachers K - 6th
Here's a great idea for your Parent/Family Night—host a Reader's Theater! Everything you need to organize the night, as well as a K-3 and a 4-7 script, is provided in the packet. 
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The Interactive Read-Aloud

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to a variety of books about immigration themes. They discuss immigration and some of the ideas presented in the books. They complete a variety of immigration-themed art projects.
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Sound It Out!

For Teachers 2nd
Help your class improve their spelling skills. Learners take a test, are given a particular spelling rule to practice, and play a Bingo game. This employs various methods for practicing spelling skills.
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do your young readers know that poems can be performed as a team? They listen to a few examples from Paul Fleischman's book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, paying attention to how the how readers work together....
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Dolch Vocabulary Flashcards-Level 1

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this language arts worksheet, students learn 50 Level 1 Dolch basic sight words. Students cut apart the 8 flashcards per page and study the words, which are in alphabetical order. There are no directions for use of the cards.
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Reading Comprehension Activity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students listen to a story titled, "Winnie The Witch," and complete follow-up comprehension questions.
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Fluency Practice with Fry Phrases

For Teachers 1st
First graders read Fry Phrases to practice phrasing and sight word recognition. The skills of reading a grade level text and fluency with accuracy are also practiced. The students pace themselves in reading with this type of practice.
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Guided Reading using Gail Gibbon's book Frogs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read to locate information about the stages of a frog's life and organize on a chart.
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Easy to Read

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students compare reading passages in paragraph form to book form. They determine that the reading passages on the state assessments are no more difficult than the books they choose to read. They turn their favorite books into reading...
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Reading My Hero Stories

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners use the My Hero website to help them develop their reading skills. They create a KWL chart for the hero of their choice.
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Listening/Reading Transfer - Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are read "Danny the Dinosaur" and explore alternate endings. They answer questions about the story to answer as they go.
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Arthur's New Puppy Directed Reading Lesson (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen and take part as teacher and classmates give a definition and examples of responsibility, then brainstorm what Arthur needs to do to prepare for his puppy's arrival. The story be read as a total group and then talked about.
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Guided Reading "In the Night Sky"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a variety of reading exercises, such as choral reading and reading response journal, to reinforce concepts about space and nocturnal animals.
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Students work together as a newspaper...
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Out to Lunch - Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short selection entitled, "Out to Lunch." They answer 4 multiple choice questions using information from the reading selection.
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Reading Comprehension - Beavers

For Students 2nd
In this reading comprehension activity, 2nd graders read a short entry about beavers. They answer 3 questions based on the reading before drawing a picture of beavers building a damn.
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Autumn: Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection titled "Autumn" and respond to 4 multiple choice questions regarding the selection.
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Re-Read The Mitten

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students utilize their reading comprehension by analyzing a book with their class. In this children's literature lesson, students read the story The Mitten by Jan Brett and discuss the imagery and characters in the story. Students create...
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Comprehension Game for Guided Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play reading comprehension games. In this guided reading lesson plan, students play a comprehension game made by the teacher. Students may play the game before or after reading the story. 
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Read and Write Numbers to 50

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this numbers to 50 worksheet, students learn to read and write numbers that count to 50. Students use square units to count in the first two problems and finish with four word problems.
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Circle of Gold Guided Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in a variety of Guided Reading activities including comprehension questions, discussion, prediction, characterization and inferring meaning while they read Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd.

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