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Reading With Speed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs and time their peers for how long it takes to read sentences. They repeat the process three times and move to short text to continue practicing becoming a fluent...
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Exciting Expressions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Elementary schoolers observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read A Fine, Fine School with and without expression and discuss the differences. Then in pairs, read the same...
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Out of Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice becoming a fluent reader by mastering the art of decoding unfamiliar words and sentences. Working with a partner, they read and reread "Froggy Eats Oats," by Jonathan London with a big palm tree, die-cut monkeys and a...
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I Can Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners listen to the explanation of the words expressively, smoothly, and quickly as being keys to fluent reading. They review some of the vowel sounds and identify them in different words and listen to some passages from The Rainbow...
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"I Will Read (Do you hear me? I mean it!) With Expression"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, who are fluent readers, practice reading with expression after listening while the teachers models good reading. They respond to teacher directions to show a specified expression. Reading with a partner, they practice adding...
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What Can We Do Today?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages fluently and with expression. They are assessed by their partner, using a fluency...
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through one-minute drills. After discussing their worst day, students write a brief sentence about the event. They read a selected passage in one minute intervals while the instructor marks the...
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1-2-3 Go!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice becoming fluent readers with timed repeated readings. They read passages for one minute and tally the number of words read. They repeat this process several times and count the number of words each time. They complete...
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Read it in Your Head

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe as the teacher reads a sentence from a book in a whisper tone and then without making a sound but moving her lips. They then find a book that they would like to read and practice silent reading. Small groups then...
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Just "Itching" to Read More Fluently!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students access how to decode words for meaning in text. They strive to read fluently with accuracy. Students read more fluently through utilizing one-minute reads of repeated readings, as the more a student rereads a passage, the more...
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore /e/. In this phonics lesson, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Young scholars read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.
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Pop Pop And Grandpa

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students develop various skills needed to perform the best examples of reading comprehension for the purpose increasing literacy. They make cognitive connections to the sequence of events in the story and make comparisons as events occur.
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Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars become fluent readers. They need plenty of time to practice reading familiar text in order to remember more words, read faster, smoother, and more expressively. Students reread familiar text, the more their reading skills...
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Seussville Meets the 4 Blocks

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and examine Dr. Seuss books, and create and write their own stories.
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Going on a Bear Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the value of Internet safety. Through various traditional and multimedia presentations and stories, students explore the ways in which they can gather information on the Internet with an emphasis on safe searching and...

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