A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.

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.

This free reading intervention site is geared toward students grade K-3, with literacy activities and lessons/ideas links. The site includes teaching tools and activities. See the link at the bottom to "About FreeReading" for a list of...

Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.

An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.

Mix up reading time by having your own students transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.

ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.

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.

An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.

An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...

Young scholars explore the relationship between addition and subtraction and develop an understanding of decomposing numbers in different ways in this first-grade lesson plan.

Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.

This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 1st graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.

A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.

Hosted by Deborah Norville, Fluent Reading explores the ability to decode quickly and achieve fluency. The program also demonstrates how early testing and intervention can help struggling readers. Features children's book author and...

In this activity 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...

In this lesson, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help learners explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text, students will write...

In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...

What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.

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.

This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.

Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.

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

Classroom teachers will learn about cloze passages, a contextual analysis instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement cloze passages, understand how to measure progress with cloze passages, find research that supports...