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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Strategic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to record prior knowledge before reading, ask questions while reading, and summarize a text after reading. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Reading Repair

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text using different reading strategies to fix problems as they read. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: K W L [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students complete a KWL chart before during and after reading a text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.
Unit Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research:ask and Answer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and stop periodically to write questions based on question word cards. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Fact Strip [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and identify the topic and four facts presented within the text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and then turn a question wheel to answer questions about the characters, setting, conflict, and plot. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Name That Rhyme [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read match the title with the last line of a common nursery rhyme. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students draw letter cards and see how many words they can make from them. Materials are included.
Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
Handout
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: How to Differentiate Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site discusses differented instruction including the definition, when to implement, and how to implement using small groups. It offers information on how to form the differentiation groups for each grade level, K-3.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words: Word Speed Practice [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students check for speed and accuracy while reading word lists. Printable materials are provided.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Questions to Guide Instruction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site offers questions to guide all facets of reading instruction broken down by grade level, grades K-3.