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Curated OER

Introduce /O/

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate the letter sound, "o." For this sound fluency lesson, students view a letter card of the letter "o" and practice the letter sound by repeating it several times. Students identify the sounds of the letters written on...
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Curated OER

First Letter Changes

For Teachers K
Students use the books of Eric Carle to change the first letter in a word to see a new word. In this phonics lesson plan, students change the beginning letters in poems and books.
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Curated OER

Going on a Bear Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners discover the value of Internet safety. Through various traditional and multimedia presentations and stories, students explore the ways in which they can gather information on the Internet with an emphasis on safe searching and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Fluency Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Find a large collection of articles, teaching ideas, and assessment resources on fluency instruction and oral reading.
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Other

Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Repeated Readings [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about reading repeatedly, an effective instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement repeated readings, understand how to measure progress with repeated readings, and find research that...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. To learn more about fluency, browse the articles,...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Beach Ball Word Families

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great fun activity to use with students to practice fluency and word families.
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US Department of Education

The Partnership for Reading: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Fluency Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A short explanation of why fluency instruction is important and how fluency develops in a child.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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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: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Interventions for Reading: Repeated Readings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a instructional activity for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase learners' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
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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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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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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Reader's Theater

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson guides learners through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.

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