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Introducation to Vocabulary for a Lesson about Communities
Students practice using new vocabulary they learn about communities. In this communities vocabulary lesson plan, students use synonyms, context clues, and relevant content to unlock the meaning of new vocabulary words.
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Visualizing: Hill Fire
Students use visualization while reading Hill of Fire. For this language arts lesson, students read the story and draw a picture of what they see while listening to the story. Students use manipulatives to create the figures described.
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Memorable Museums
Second graders describe the impact of certain figures in United States history, including Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and iam Clark. They describe the general features of a community as well as specific features of their own...
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Monkey Reading
Students work to gain fluency and become successful readers through repeated readings. They use the cover-up method to help them decode new words and chart their progress as they complete one-minute timed readings with a partner.
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American Idols
Students design a biographical web for a famous American figure. They identify key research questions and organize information as a prewriting strategy. This can be done individually or as a class, depending on your needs and students.
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Up, Up and Away With Fluency
Students practice their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of their...
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To Be Or Not To Be: Reading With Expression
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol with and without expression, and discuss the differences. In small groups they...
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Snowman in Winter Sequence Writing
Young scholars develop a creative snowman using step-by-step stickers. They write a short story about the snowman they have created, explaining the sequence they used to create their snowman. Students present their completed story in...
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Starting Stone Soup
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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What I Dream For:
Learners investigate about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., watching video clips from unitedstreaming. They identify ways that they can help make Martin Luther's dream of peace a reality. Pupils identify contributions that...
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Word Wonders
Young scholars read passages and use phonics and context clues to self correct themselves while reading. For this reading lesson, students complete a worksheet which is embedded in the plan which has them choose the correct word to...
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Sorting
Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Zooming into Fluency
Students read and reread decodable words in connected text. In this language arts instructional activity, students focus on improving their fluency to help them gain more meaning from the text. The story focused on is Arthur's Loose...
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Technology-commected Folklife Lesson Plan: Fables
Young scholars discuss ways the stories were alike and different. The teacher demonstrate how to draw a Venn diagram using Microsoft Word. They label the two circles and enter the likenesses and differences on the diagram.
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Ready, Set, Read
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students complete an initial read of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed assessment of their...
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Word Meanings- School-Home Links
In this reading worksheet, students practice strategies to work our the meaning of unknown words in sentences. They examine how to use nearby words to help them understand unknown words. They, along with at parent, sign the sheet.
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Rhyming Word Poems
Students create poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read poetry and identify rhyming words using highlighters. Students may also add rhyming lines to the poetry they read.
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Eggs Filled With Sound-Five Senses
Students use their five senses to examine an eggs with objects inside them. They use their hearing to identify the object in the egg and open them to see if their guess was correct. They end the lesson by discussing their sense of hearing.
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Find the Word That Doesn't Belong
Students, after listening the "My Hero" story, are given four words in which they have to figure out which one does not belong with the others.
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Ready, Set, Let's Read
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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Score With Fluency
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After a brief discussion of fluency and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Racy Readers
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of reading fluently, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Ready, Set, Go
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading as a good reader strategy, students complete an initial read of a novel text. With a partner, they complete a timed fluency drill...
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Home Run Reader
Students work to improve reading fluency. They complete one-minute timed readings with a partner--one student reads and the other times him using a stopwatch. They reverse roles several times and then repeat, documenting their progress.