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Hurry On Your Trip Cat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing strategies for becoming good readers, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Start Your Engines

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student increase their reading fluency and expressiveness through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, pupils complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read...
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Simon Says: Mother May I?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of fluency, young scholars complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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My Lips are Zipped

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice reading silently. After discussing how reading silently can enhance the reading experience, students discuss decoding strategies. Individual learners read selected, level passages during sustained silent reading.
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Speedy Readers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Calling All Actors and Actresses

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read decodable, leveled text with expression. After the teacher demonstrates reading with expression and reading with a flat affect, students discuss which reading made the text more exciting. In groups, students practice...
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Expression is the Key

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the reading of "For Sale" by Shel Silverstein which is read very expressively. They review sentence structure remembering that reading the sentence should always make sense especially when read with expression....
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Speedy Readers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reading a poem, "It's Raining Said John Twaining," by, N.M. Bodecker Athenuem, to assess a variety of strategies to maintain what they have read as well as speed up their reading paces. They keep a record of how fast...
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Watch Out for the Wasp!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Let's Sail Far, Far Away

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a book as stated in the lesson and then reread the first two pages aloud modeling how not to read, without fluency and with no expression. Then they reread the same two pages again fluently and with expression and...
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Racing Readers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen as the teacher models both non-fluent and fluent reading and decide which sounds better. They read a book silently to themselves before completing repeated, timed readings. Working with a partner, they complete timed...
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How Grouchy are YOU!!!!!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle. With this selection, they encounter how to read with different voices. Students keep a reading journal in this class as well.
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read aloud with expression through practice by monitoring their changes in volume, speed, and pitch of their voices. They use cross checking, if they come to a word they are unfamiliar with, they read the rest of the sentence....
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"IIIIH" it is a bug!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the long and short vowel sounds of /i/ in a variety of text with assessing different strategies. They utilize tongue twisters to assist them including "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Liz is Six." Letterboxes are also...
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Dirty Dan Isn't Dull!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read smoothly and expressively while noticing punctuation and using voice inflection to emphasize important words and phrases in the text. They listen to and reread a poem in small groups. Students discuss how the poem sounds...
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Food Label Realities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify nutritional information on food labels. In this nutrition lesson, 2nd graders bring in food labels from home and practice reading them. Students discuss the nutritional content, such as caloric content. Students...
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Hole Mole

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the book Hole Mole and complete activities that teach them about Mexican culture. In this Holy Mole lesson plan, 2nd graders complete cooking, drawing, writing, and other activities.
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Digestion - Part 2

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read a text on digestion and learn new vocabulary as they read. In this digestion lesson plan, students also complete a picture chart to show the digestive process.
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Weather Awareness

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate weather. In this weather lesson, 2nd graders discover how to read a temperature gauge, keep track of the weather, and find out how the weather affects their day. They work individually and in partners to make...
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Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...
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Plurals: Choose –s or –es

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Ensure that your learners have a strong grasp of when to use -s versus -es when making a word plural. For this worksheet, class members match words to their correct endings.
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Putting Reading first: Keys to Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders recognize what comprehension is and can explain the strategies they are using.  In this reading comprehension lesson, 2nd graders self assess the strategies they are using to comprehend a text.  Students answer...
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Read-a-thon

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students gain an appreciation for books. They track and calculate the amount of money collected in a classroom or school-wide read-a-thon. The lesson encourages students to become better readers with the end result being an increase in...
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"Ready? READ!"

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students encounter how to decode words to comprehend text better. They read and re-read to become better and fluent readers. Students read in pairs to increase fluency. They incorporate "Book Talk" round table discussions over text with...

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