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Reed Novel Studies

Skink No Surrender: Novel Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The oldest turtle ever recorded lived to the age of 188! As it turns out, two characters from Carl Hiaasen's Skink No Surrender are fascinated by these shelled creatures. Using the novel study, scholars research three types of turtles...
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Using Context

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Teams practice decoding and using context strategies to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. After verifying the meanings of words through the use of dictionaries, the Internet, thesauruses, and other sources, learners write the...
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Context Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. For this language arts lesson, students discuss the intended message from observing a picture. Additionally, students explore guessing the covered word within a text.
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Faster, Faster!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners practice reading faster, smoother and more expressively by exercising the strategy of reading and rereading text to become more familiar with word recognition. They participate in reading a page or two of "Pen Pals" to...
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Parts of Speech Secret Decoder Puzzle

For Students 4th
For this parts of speech secret decoder puzzle worksheet, 4th graders use the decoder key to solve fifteen words that are parts of speech.
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Decoding a Mystery Message from Space

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners examine a message sent from outer space and do their best to interpret its meaning. In this problem solving lesson, students investigate a code sent to them from "outer space." The learners collaborate with their classmates to...
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American English

Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
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Two-Consonant Vocabulary Words

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these four building vocabulary worksheets, students define, unscramble, write sentences containing at least seven words and showing word meanings, and time read the seven vocabulary words. Students complete four skills.
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Multiple-Meaning Words 1,2,3

For Students 3rd - 5th
In these three multiple-meaning words recognition worksheets, students review meanings, examples, and decoding strategies, choose sentences with words that have same meanings, choose words whose meanings best fit pairs of sentences,...
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App
ABCya

Word BINGO

For Students Pre-K - 4th
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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Road Runner Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify that fluency helps them to read faster, smoother, and with more expression. They read a book where a pet dog named Red is hungry and wants her owner to give her food. Students practice quick reading by reading until...
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Developing Thinking and Reasoning Skills in Primary Learners Using Detective Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the genre of detective fiction. Based on their reading level, they are given a different series of books to read. For each story, they are to make predictions and practice decoding messages. To end the...
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Lesson 3 - Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Words such as witch, whack, and wish often cause beginning readers to struggle. The third installments in the Word Recognition and Fluency series of 17, covers consonant digraphs. Activities guide learners through the identification and...
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Get ready, get set? READ!!!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in reading exercises to improve speed, fluency, and comprehension. As a class, students practice reading skills to increase their speed and comprehension. Partners take turns competing in a reading race while reading...
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December Holidays Vocabulary Decoder Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this December holiday instructional activity, students match letters of words to definitions, decoding December holiday words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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A Speeding Rocket, a Shooting Star... It's a Racing Reader!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Prepare a gameboard and die-cut race cars to play a fun fluency game. Also create several flash cards to review the long /i/ sound. Then, model reading smoothly and with expression, emphasizing the importance of re-reading texts to...
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Unit Plan
Pearson

Unlocking and Exploring Folktales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Designed with many of the Common Core standards in mind, this 10-lesson unit is brimming with ELL strategies, teacher's notes, and the best of core instructional methods for teaching the common elements of folktales, and exploring...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
The four worksheets here are provided to introduce your learners to new vocabulary on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each list contains seven vocabulary words focused on a specfic vowel pair. First the learner hears the word,...
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BBC

The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
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Antonyms, synonyms and homophones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Shed light on what antonyms, synonyms, and homophones are. In this lesson, upper elementary schoolers create pairs using an antonym, a homophone, and/or a synonym. Then they play an antonym matching game.
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Let's Read with Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the concept of expressive reading. Through modeling the teacher shows them that more expression makes reading more interesting and enjoyable to listen to. They review ending punctuation marks and the types of expression...
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Bits of Braille

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Intended to build an understanding of Braille in a general education classroom. They read the book Helen Keller then write their names using a braille website. Many interesting web links are included. Could be used for a general or...
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Encore! Reading with Expression

For Teachers 4th - 6th
When you read aloud from Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, class members respond with "Encore!" or "No!" depending on your use, or misuse, of volume and speed as you demonstrate reading with expression. Readers then practice in...

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