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Daily Lesson Plan for a Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 8th
Strategy-based programs that are executed with consistency are the best for achieving growth in any learner with a learning disability. Here is a seven-step lesson plan that is highly structured and is intended to help learners with...
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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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Vowel Lessons: To Help Improve Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th
There are a few things every good speller knows: spelling rules, vowel sounds, and word endings. Help your learner with dyslexia become a more efficient speller with a few tips from a dyslexia expert. Included in the lesson is a video,...
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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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Limericks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Introduce your class to the limerick with a focus on the form and its history. Resource is short on procedure, but contains useful suggestions about where to look for school-appropriate limericks for young readers. Examine the...
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Building Vocabulary with Word Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover palindromes. In this vocabulary skills lesson, students participate in 3 palindrome activities that require them to read and create number and word palindromes.
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Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice organizing their vocabulary words in an online organizer tool. In this vocabulary lesson, students read a text and take notes. Additionally, students organize their vocabulary words into an online "Alphabet Organizer"...
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Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare and contrast an informational article with a fictional story. They read the story "The Contest" as a class, and discuss the different types of literature genres. Next, they complete a vocabulary worksheet and a...
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"My Holiday Diary"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book "My Holiday Diary" by Jason Telford. They scan the text to locate specific information, write a statement taken from the text and change it...
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Meet The Artist

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate art history by researching a particular artist.  In this biographical lesson, students are given a brief summary of a artist's life and are assigned to create a report on the person.  Students create an outline based...
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Put Your Face on the Map

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars investigate topography and contour lines by examining a human face.  In this mapping lesson, students create a plaster cast of a face and create a map of the contours of the face one centimeter at a time.  Young scholars...
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Pass the Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners read various poems daily.  In this poetry lesson, students are exposed to poetry each day in a variety of ways.  There are several ideas on how to incorporate poetry into the classroom on a daily basis as well as a list of...
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Sudoku!

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students practice their math skills by playing the game Soduku.  In this numbers game lesson, students discover the rules to the game Sudoku and the different techniques to play the game.  Students investigate several Sudoku resource...
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The Words that Surround Us

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents....
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Stained Glass for Your Class

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate the history of stained glass and the creator of the art form.  In this art project lesson plan, students utilize drawing paper to create their own style of stained glass using transparent paint.  Students tape their...
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Wonders of the World

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate a famous structure.  In this Wonders of the World instructional activity, 5th graders examine the architecture of a famous structure of the world.  Students answer questions about their structure. Students...
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Pitch-er Perfect

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate music and what causes the pitch of a sound.  In this sound properties lesson, students listen to a story about animals and the instinctual pitch they have in their voice and how musicians have that as well.  Students...
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Life Sentence

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction.  In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition.  Students...
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How To Teach How - To Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice their writing skills by creating "How To" articles.  In this journalism instructional activity, students grab tasks from a hat and are asked to explain orally how to complete these activities.  Students complete flow...
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A Piece of the Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Discover the process of writing a story by comparing it to a puzzle. Begin by examining a diagram shaped like a puzzle which contains important elements of a story.  Learners mix and match the pieces with elements of a story they are...
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Poetry & Word Families

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study a word family before listing rhyming words in that family. They use the words to begin developing lines of poetry. They continue writing poetry individually and finally, they illustrate their work using graphic software.
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Awesome Spelling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are introduced to spelling words as a whole class by viewing a PowerPoint. They spell the word, repeat and spell the word again as a whole class. Pupils create a sentence orally using the list of words. Students work in small...
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Titanic

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students conduct research with the purpose of writing a report about the Titanic. They use a variety of resources. The students produce a written document that has plenty of documented information. They also compare the information that...
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Flow Charts

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Young scholars explore the use of flow charts and cyclical diagrams. They discuss how to read the charts. Students produce a simple flow chart or diagram to explain a process. They investigate various methods used to present text.

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