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Beginning to Read
Students explore various books read by their classmates outside of school. After reading books of their choice, the class creates a bulletin board summarizing their main ideas of the book and their opinion of the book using Flat Stanley.
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Vroom, Vroom, Vroom! Off We Go!
Young scholars practice sentences and short books to improve their fluency. They read practice sentences to model fluent reading. They review decoding strategies for unknown words including cross-checking. They read with their partner...
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Oh Look, You're Fluent!
Young scholars practice decoding unknown words and improving their fluency. They review using cover-up sticks to decode unknown words while reading. They practice sentences and a short story to increase their fluency. They work in...
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Get Lucky!
Students practice improving their reading fluency and pace. They review the u=/u/ correspondence. Students read "Just My Luck" and discuss what the book is about. They practice reading the story with expression and improved pace with...
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Race To Finish
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing cross checking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Score a Homerun for Reading!
Students form the ability to be able to read text smoothly, expressively, and faster. By being able to do this, students are able to concentrate more on the comprehension of the text instead of on the decoding of each individual word....
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F.A.I.T.H (Faster, Accurate, Independent, Time, Hinge)
Students explore and brainstorm the concept of how reading is the hinge to almost everything that we do in our society. They formulate ways to improve on their speed and accuracy of timed readings and choose a book to read and reread...
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Learning to be a Super Speedy Reader
Students review the steps to follow when they come to a word that they do not know, review blending, and the body and coda part of the word. They time the teacher as she reads for one minute using the clock on the wall. They then read...
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Can You Feel the Book?
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. As a class they identify different expressions and emotions, then create expression cards. Students then discuss appropriate punctuation for the ends...
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Do You Know What You Just Read?
Pupils answer reading comprehension questions using the "story grammar" technique. They listen to a story and then answer questions using the technique: main character, setting, main events, and resolution. Students complete an...
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Presenting Poetry
Students encounter the fluency formula that states that it is important for kids to read and reread decodable words in a connected text. They must become effortless decoders in order to read fluently, and fluency in reading allows the...
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Rewriting Alexander's Day
Students experiment with word choice and sentence fluency to revise Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst.
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Sequencing Stories
Learners explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama lesson, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Learners role play, pantomime, and add sounds to create a...
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Speedy Reading
Students strive to read fluently so their entire reading experience is enriched. They use automatic word recognition, more expressive reading, and faster reading are all products of fluent reading. Students read and re-read decodable...
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Putting Reading first: Keys to Comprehension
Second graders recognize what comprehension is and can explain the strategies they are using. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, 2nd graders self assess the strategies they are using to comprehend a text. Students...
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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"
Students 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 with...
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Reader's Theater Lesson Plans
Reader's Theater lesson plans get students reading in a fun and motivating way.
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Going, Going, Gone!
Second graders discover the meaning of reading comprehension. They get a partner and practice readng sentences aloud to them, starting slow to make sure they read all the words correctly. They then try to say the sentences faster and...
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KWL Chart
Students create a KWL chart on a selected nonfiction topic using a variety of strategies. They infer the answers to four questions, identify a purpose for reading, list four or more things about the topic, and list four or more answers...
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"Go, Go Speed Reader!"
Learners encounter how to read quickly, effortlessly, and using expression they must become fluent readers. They work on word recognition in order for students to comprehend text and become fluent readers. In order for learners to...
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Up-to-Date Aesop
Students translate one of Aesop's fables into a modern setting with modern language. They illustrate a fable using art supplies or illustration software on the computer.
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Journal Writing
Young scholars creatively utilize a word processor in order to do daily journal writing. They explore with using simple, compound, and complex sentences in order to present ideas with clarity and precision. They gain computer skills...
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Newspaper for Inner City School
Students use their writing skills and digital cameras to produce a newspaper. They write about school events, class projects, items of interest, culturally-related issues, and interview students. Students edit digital images and insert...