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Curated OER

Oral Reading Fluency: Reading Text with Appropriate Phrasing and Proper Expression

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Understanding punctuation is a vital part of reading with appropriate phrasing and proper expression. Second graders take care to emphasize each sentence and phrase they are reading based on punctuation. They read as a class and then on...
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Curated OER

The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...
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Curated OER

Starting Stone Soup

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete activities using the story Stone Soup. In this reading fluency lesson, 2nd graders read a fluency page that reviews the vocabulary in the book. Students then participate in readers theater to promote reading...
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Curated OER

A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class.  In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher.  Students...
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Curated OER

Sight Words on a Snowy Evening

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their...
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Curated OER

Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read poetry and build their vocabulary through use of the puppet Geo George.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Phrase Speed Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
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.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Phrase Reading

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
A great activity for students to learn high frequency words and how to make sentences.