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Reading Faster with Wild Thing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice one-minute oral readings to increase their speed and fluency. They review several reading strategies, and then they read orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with a stopwatch and tracks their time on...
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Shh! I am Trying to Read!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the advantages of being able to read silently. They then review a "stuck on a word" strategy using context clues to determine meanings of unknown words. They then practice reading silently and the teacher assesses for...
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Get Lucky!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars 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...
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"Doggone Good" at Expression

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review how to read a word that they do not recognize right away and go over examples. They discuss the meaning of "expression" as a class and write the proper definition on the board for the students to see on the board....
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Summing Up "Penguins on Parade"

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the meaning of comprehension as it refers to what they have read and how they remember information. They discover the meaning of summarization including the steps they should follow. They then predict what an article...
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Sum + It = Up

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners review silent reading techniques as well as summarization. They read copies of "Forest Life" silently and complete a story web to organize the main points of the story. They then use use the points to write a brief paragraph to...
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Read It, See It!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils review the concept of silent reading and discuss the meaning of visualization. They listen to a poem as it is read and close their eyes to try to make a picture of what is happening and think about the qualities the wind...
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Rapid Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review sight recognition and blending by using an index card with one of the words from the word wall on it. They read a story aloud as a class and hold up their card when they hear their word and sing a song that allows them to...
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I Can Read With Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They create a deck of expression cards to...
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Appetizing Apples

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify individual sounds in words in order to read and write. They explore ways to be successful in reading and identifying phonemes and sounds in words. Students recognize and use the phoneme a. They review the phoneme a by...
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Fire Safety

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review how to exit the school building during a fire drill. They discuss the World Trade Center escape routes and why there was difficulty getting out on September 11, 2001. They compare fire escape routes of the World Trade...
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Old Mother Twitchett

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars view and discuss the a-rhyme-a-week poster"Old Mother Twitchett." They review the vocabulary from the chart and then focus on the pictures. Each student then chants the rhyme as they are taught the words to the riddle rhyme.
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Sequential Order

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students review vocabulary from the story they are reading. Students receive 10 sentence strips that depict the story. Students then need to place the sentence strips in sequential order and discuss with their other classmates. Students...
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I Think I Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /ch/ sound through tongue twister. They identify the initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ by reading a story to a partner.
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Chomp Chomp Chocolate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. Students practice identifying the initial and final placement of the digraph /ch/ in words by identifying pictures containing the sound. They read a decodable story...
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Using Authentic Texts to Teach Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students read an article identifying any new vocabulary words they are unfamiliar with. Using the text, they discover antonyms, synonyms and word families. They answer comprehension questions and review the vocabulary to end the lesson.
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Shoe Shuffle

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars review the "word choice" writing trait, and recall how to use descriptive words to paint a picture. They write a description of one of their tennis shoes without sharing it with classmates. They place a shoe on display...
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Reading to Learn Design: Soaring Through Summarization

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to and practice techniques and strategies to master the art of summarization. They read, discuss and summarize chapter 3 in "Catwings," by Ursula K. LeGuin. Steps to follow for summarizing is included within this...
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That Reminds Me

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners investigate various forms of literature using drawings, sentences, and class discussion. They pick the text to look at to keep student interest. The teacher helps the students use appropriate reading level books. They complete a...
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Book Report Database and Author E-mail Project

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read a number of books by a given author and input information into a database. They e-mail information about their favorite author to other students. They focus on story elements and ask questions or make suggestions for future...
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The 3 Bees

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars review what the three bees are: respect, responsibility and safety. Individually, they use the internet to complete a webquest to examine how to be respectful to others and be responsible for their actions. To end the...
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Total English Starter 13

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this English review worksheet, students work in pairs to choose a destination they both like. Students write a plan for their holiday. Students then ask other pairs about their holidays and fill in the information tables. Students...
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Desktop Spelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a spelling drill. In this spelling instructional activity, students correctly spell the word that is called out and remain standing if they spell the word correctly.
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary worksheet, students review the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary words that are listed in alphabetical order. Students review 220 words.

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