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The Interesting Iguana

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice the representation of i=/i/ in correspondence and spoken words. They study spelling and reading words with i=/i/ in letterboxes, circling words in pictures that show words containing /i/, and view a chart with "The...
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Read and Remember - Story Grammar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use the Story Grammar strategy to outline the main elements of the story which will help them with free recall and cued recall. The strategy includes: identifying the main characters in the story, recalling where and...
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Sentence Completion: Personal Information

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, young scholars choose a word from a word bank to fill in the blank. There are ten different questions for students to answer.
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Sentence Completion

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners select a word from a word bank to complete a sentence. There are five sentences to complete.
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Sentence Completion

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students select a word from a word bank to complete a sentence. There are five sentences to complete.
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Sentence Completion

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose words from a word bank to correctly complete sentences. There are five sentences to finish.
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I Like To

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, students practice reading the story from the flip book while paying close attention to pronunciation and fluency.
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Eloquent Experts

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners practice reading with fluency and expression in this instructional activity. Students work with a partner with a set of sentence strips. They take turns pulling sentence strips out of the envelope and reading them aloud to...
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Teaching Voluntary Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in a variety of activities to increase their fluency and read for pleasure. They read books of their choice, participate in author talks and book talks, write book reviews, and select favorite books for a class...
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Nouns-Sentence Completion

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Young readers learn about what a noun is. They choose the best noun from three choices to correctly complete a sentence. There are five sentences to finish.
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This Was A Big Day

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy worksheet, students practice reading the story from the flip book while paying close attention to pronunciation and fluency.
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Who Came Home? Black and White

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literacy activity, learners practice reading the story from the flip book while paying close attention to pronunciation and fluency.
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Get This Away From Me

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this literacy learning exercise, students practice reading the story from the flip book while paying close attention to pronunciation and fluency.
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Get Away

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this literacy activity, students practice reading the story from the flip book while paying close attention to pronunciation and fluency.
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You Pick Your Own Book!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students decide on which chapter book they would like to read. They read the book, discussing certain chapters to keep the ending of the story a secret to slower readers. Each day they get into groups with students who are reading the...
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Learning to be a Super Speedy Reader

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the steps to follow when they come to a word that they do not know, review blending, and the body and coda part of the word. They time the teacher as she reads for one minute using the clock on the wall. They then read...
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Perfect 10 for Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the reading experience, students listen as the instructor reads a story with expression. Students complete a read with the...
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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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Got Any Good Books?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students choose a book of their own to read and read it for an allotted time period. They then make an advertisement for their book that they share with children in other classrooms to convince them to read their book choice using a...
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Loud or Soft? Quick or Slow?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss storyteling ans what makes a story interesting to listen to. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading expressively. Students work with a reading partner and practice reading with expression. They read from a...
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F.A.I.T.H (Faster, Accurate, Independent, Time, Hinge)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore and brainstorm the concept of how reading is the hinge to almost everything that we do in our society. They formulate ways to improve on their speed and accuracy of timed readings and choose a book to read and reread...
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On-Demand End of Unit Assessment and Bookmark Celebration

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Using everything they have learned about writing paragraphs over the past few lessons of the unit, class members compose an informative paragraph independently. This is an authentic assessment of their ability, since learners have...
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
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Up-to-Date Aesop

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students translate one of Aesop's fables into a modern setting with modern language. They illustrate a fable using art supplies or illustration software on the computer.