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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students access how to read with more expression. They explore how reading with more expression helps to bring books alive. Students realize that with expression brings the enjoyment of reading brought to a higher level.
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1, 2, 3...Summing It Up!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students exercise the strategy of summarization to gain greater comprehension skills. In the computer lab, they access the National Geographic site and read "The Great Koala Rescue" to summarize and get rid of any unimportant information.
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Star Light, Star Bright

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice the skill of reading while chanting the rhyme of "Star Light, Star Bright" and act out the story while working as a group with the help of the teacher. They also listen to the story on tape and sing the rhyming song.
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Reader's Theater Script- Green Eggs and Ham

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
For this reading worksheet, students perform a reader's theater based on the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham. Students read the 2 character short script as a play.
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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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Counting Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
In whole group practice, children count together and identify how many objects are drawn on butcher paper, increasing the number when they have achieved fluency. In pairs, they count manipulatives. They then copy series of numbers from...
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Happy Birthday or Boring Birthday?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with more expression. They observe a demonstration of wishing happy birthday with and without expression, and in pairs demonstrate reading with expression using the...
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Can You Feel the Book?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do your young readers know that poems can be performed as a team? They listen to a few examples from Paul Fleischman's book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, paying attention to how the how readers work together....
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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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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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Reciprocal Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice their reading comprehension skills by making their own bookmark about the books they have read.
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Do You Know What You Just Read?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students 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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Graphing Family Reading Habits

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders collect data from their families about their reading habits and graph them. In this graphing family reading habits instructional activity, 2nd graders interview family members about their reading habits. They then use a...
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Arthur Meets the President

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read, Arthur Meets the President, and review the story using sentence strips and complete a book review activity with a partner.  In this reading skills lesson, students work on fact and opinion and...
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Fishing Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Fishing Fun. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have...
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Loving to Read While Learning to Express!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice recognizing words more accurately, rapidly and automatically by assessing five major techniques and strategies: reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoother, reading silently, and reading voluntarily. They...
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Fishy Fun

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review the correspondent /ai/ = long a and break into groups of five. They use a fishing pole with a magnet attached to "fish" for words that contain the /ai/ sound in it. If they catch a word that does not contain the /ai/...
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Spring Lesson Unit on Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read about Peter Rabbit. In this lesson plan, about reading and comprehension, students listen to the story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. Students answer questions about the story to determine comprehension....
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What's the Point

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice the strategy of summarization to be able to understand and comprehend the text. They study how to get rid of unnecessary or repeated information and find the most important items or events and then write a statement...
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Bless You

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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A Seal Who Loves Peaches and Cream

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners decode correspondence in order to become better, fluent readers. When the letters e and a are put together they make the E sound. They become more fluent readers through listening for a correspondence in speech, in text, and...
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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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Can you cry like a baby?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...

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