Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Words, Word Speed Practice
Taking turns, learners time each other as they read a list of high-frequency words and track progress.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Words, Pass the Word
Learners time each other as they read as many high-frequency words as possible in one minute. Peers record progress.
Curated OER
Possessive Nouns
As a way to explore possessive nouns in an interesting way, this presentation has a list of rules, examples, and practice questions. This would be a terrific way to review material you have already covered in class. You could also use it...
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Sight Words
Practice sight words. There is a list of forty-six words, such as house, very, and half. Learners could use this resource to practice reading or spelling these words. It would also work well as part of a whole group or center activity.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Words, Word Sprint
Using a set of high-frequency word flashcards, partners time each other to see how many words they can read in one minute. They place correctly read words in a yes pile and incorrectly in a no pile. Once a minute is up, partners count...
Curriculum Corner
Quick Literacy Centers for Back to School
Use a set of quick and easy to use literacy centers at the beginning of the year as you start to assess your students. The 13-page packet provides writing and reading activities with simple directions that allows new class members to...
Curated OER
Dolch Work Bingo
Learners play Bingo using Dolch sight words on their game cards. In this sight word lesson, students create their own Bingo card, filling it out with dolch words from their provided list. When a student has gotten Bingo, the student...
Lesson Plansos
Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar worksheets,...
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Beginning Spelling: Time to Eat
For younger grammar learners, or as part of an ELD lesson for older kids, a word scramble activity provides a fun way to practice food-related vocabulary and spelling. Learners unscramble letters to form 11 food-related words. The...
Curated OER
Hide and Seek Vocabulary!
Third graders practice word recognition and vocabulary building. They find word cards in the classroom. Then they practice reading the words and using them in sentences. Additional practice is gained by writing the words and using them...
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Praise for a Color
Students discover the 5 senses by analyzing poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read a poem with their class and analyze how each sense plays into their understanding of the poem. Students write a poem based on a specific color...
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Color Description
Students explore the use of description in literature and color. They read Hailstones and Halibut Bones and discuss the description of each color. Students what each color makes them think of and they create pictures for each color.
Scholastic
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream - Mini Book
Celebrate the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. by sharing his dream of equality for all with young readers. This printable book includes simple sentences and one- and two-syllable words that make it a perfect...
Curated OER
The Rose Center
Young scholars utilize Internet sites to improve word recognition, increase vocabulary and comprehension of the English language. They complete a worksheet stating facts from selected Internet sites. They write a composition about the...
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Fun With Formatting
Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...
Perkins School for the Blind
Wheel of Fortune Game
Games are great for practicing any number of basic skills. Here is a set of wonderful instructions for making a braille version of a spinning game, where children win points by correctly reading/identifying the high-frequency words the...
Curated OER
Spelling Connections Grade 2
In this spelling activity, students analyze the five letters on petals in flower shapes. Students pick letters from the petals to make words and write them in the center of the flower. Students color the "-ill" words yellow and the "-it"...
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Starfish Reading Comprehension
In this starfish reading comprehension instructional activity, learners read a short information text about starfish. Students answer 4 fill in the blank questions and color a large starfish picture.
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Venerable Inventors
Students discuss important historic inventors and read their biographical information. In this world history lesson, students describe Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison, and Guglielmo Marconi using vocabulary terms used in their text....
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Portfolio Autobiographies
Third graders create an autobiography on the computer. They write, design and illustrate using word processing and graphic tools on the computer.
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Lesson: Immigration
Many of your class members will have heard of Executive Order 9066 and the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Some may even recognize the terms “Issei” and “Nisei,” but few will have heard of Enemy Alien Hearing Boards, of the...
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Verb-Adverb Charades
Students act out a variety of verbs and adverbs. They choose a card with an action word/verb written on it and then act out or "pantomime" the word on the card. They wait for another student to call out the word the student is acting out.
Curated OER
Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors
Students create their own color wheel by mixing colors of Playdoh. Each child names the primary and secondary colors.
Curated OER
Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day
Learners explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. They present design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting lesson that stretches student thinking.