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Maniac Magee

For Students 4th - 6th
A 10-question interactive online quiz checks comprehension of Jerry Spinelli's lively novel. Several inference-based questions demand more than just fact recollection. Unlimited chances to try missed questions again encourage rereading....
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Catch Me If You Can

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners practice reading with improved fluency. After discussing how reading with fluency can enhance the text, students practice rereading a text. Individual learners read the text to the instructor and record their progress in words...
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Ribbit, Ribbit: Leap into Speedy Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore reading with fluency. They use repeated reading in order to improve their reading fluency. Students read "Frog and Toad are Friends." They discuss why it is important to read with fluency and explore what reading with...
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Faster, Faster!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars 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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Presenting Poetry

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners encounter the fluency formula that states that it is important for kids to read and reread decodable words in a connected text. They must become effortless decoders in order to read fluently, and fluency in reading allows the...
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Race into Fluency!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Elementary learners practice reading short passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs to do repeated readings of Jane and Babe, recording their times. They switch roles and time one another in an effort to decrease the amount...
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Go, Speed Reader, Go

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working in small groups, they read complete a timed...
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Fast and Fluent Frogs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners increase 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 read complete a timed assessment of...
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Get on the Fluency Boat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Lightning Speed Reading

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students focus on improving their reading fluency. They discuss what it means to be a fluent reader and practice repeated readings with a short story. They work in partners and take turns timing one another for one minute reads.
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Reading Race to the Farm

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Get Ready to Rumble with Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding, reading with expression, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read...
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Start Your Engines

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student increase their reading fluency and expressiveness through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read...
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Practicing Smarter Not Harder is Best!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students increase their reading fluence through repeated reading of a selected, leveled passage. Working in pairs, students read a grade level appropriate text in one-minute intervals. After reading they determine their fluency through a...
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Ready and Action! Reading Time!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to improve their reading fluency and oral expression while reading aloud. With a partner, they read sentence strips and reread them to make the sentence more fluent and meaningful. They 'perform' their sentences for the...
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Finish Line Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners practice repeated readings to improve their fluency. They read sentences to practice fluency and expression. They work in pairs using racetrack and racecar graphics to motivate their fluency improvement. They time one...
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A Close Look at Close Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Take a close look at this 14-page resource that contains everything you want to know about close reading, from what it is and is not, to suggestions for how to choose a text and craft text-dependent questions that encourage readers to...
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Picture This

For Teachers K - 4th
A unique writing instructional activity, this plan begins with learners talking about multiculturalism in small groups. Each learner will choose a picture from a newspaper, describe it to their small group, and think about how it relates...
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Heartsongs Poetry by Mattie Stepanek

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Use Mattie Stepanek’s Heartsongs book of poetry to inspire young poets to write about their own lives, experiences, and feelings. After reading the introduction to Mattie’s book, in which he talks about himself and his reasons for...
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Exciting Expressions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Elementary schoolers observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read A Fine, Fine School with and without expression and discuss the differences. Then in pairs, read the same...
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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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We love to Express Ourselves: Growing Toward Independence and Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Reading with expression is an important component in developing fluency. Emerging readers learn different strategies for accomplishing this skill through the teacher's model reading of Earrings!. Partner practice is combined with...
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Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Ready...Set...Go!!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Readers work to increase their reading fluency through repeated timed readings. They learn to read with more excitement and enthusiasm in their voices, making a more pleasurable experience for their listeners.

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