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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Combination Activities Free Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great small group and whole class lessons on introducing, reintroducing, building fluency, and building accuracy for letter combinations.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own young scholars transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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Hopelink

Reading Lesson: Reading Accuracy Check

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Baseball: Letter Sound Fluency Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting letter "baseball" game where students "bat" by giving a word that starts with the letter that the teacher holds up. This site includes a link to letter cards to print.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Addition and Subtraction Fluency Set of Tasks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students explore the relationship between addition and subtraction and develop an understanding of decomposing numbers in different ways in this first-grade lesson plan.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Provides a wealth of basic information on how to teach kids to read. Covers print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and lots more.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literacy Achievement Academy, Kindergarten: Additional Resources

For Students K
This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to kindergarteners. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 3: Fluent Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Hosted by Deborah Norville, Fluent Reading explores the ability to decode quickly and achieve fluency. The program also demonstrates how early testing and intervention can help struggling readers. Features children's book author and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Star and a Wish

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: We Saw Him at the Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the mentor text utilized is Deborah Guarino's book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, with the focus of sentence fluency. Each student will think of an animal that that has the same initial sound as his/her name. Using the...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Family Reading Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Reading Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Cloze Passage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about cloze passages, a contextual analysis instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement cloze passages, understand how to measure progress with cloze passages, find research that supports...
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St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Y, Ie, Ind, Ild Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading video module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "y", "ie", "ind", and "ild" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various...
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Other

Papa Jan: Five Essential Components of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you name the five essential components of reading? Check out this informative site from Papa Jan.com to learn more about phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Invitations: Reading Lessons From Preservice Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Links are provided for leveled reading lessons created by preservice teachers at Auburn University. Levels include emergent literacy, beginning reading, growing independence and fluency, and reading to learn.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing

For Teachers K - 1st
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers. It presents some of the core information that teachers need to help young children learn to read and write well and to support the children who struggle. The...

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