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It's Time to Sum It Up!!!
Pupils practice the reading strategy of summarization skills by picking out main events or ideas while reading a chapter in a book. They interact with the article, "SuperCroc," from National Geographic for Kids magazine to summarize and...
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Can you cry like a baby?
Students practice the strategies of phonemes and spellings maps to sound out new words. They work on the short vowel /a/ sound with a sentence strip with "Allie the Alligator sat on a mat eating apples," on it and the book, "Cat in the...
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Fuzz and the Buzz
Students practice various strategies for becoming fluent readers. They review the skills of phoneme recognition, decoding, crosschecking and spelling in order to read with automation. Working in pairs, students complete a pair-share of...
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Express Yourself!
Students read aloud with expression through practice by monitoring their changes in volume, speed, and pitch of their voices. They use cross checking, if they come to a word they are unfamiliar with, they read the rest of the sentence....
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Bless You
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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"IIIIH" it is a bug!
Young scholars practice the long and short vowel sounds of /i/ in a variety of text with assessing different strategies. They utilize tongue twisters to assist them including "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Liz is Six." Letterboxes are also...
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Star Light, Star Bright
Students practice the skill of reading while chanting the rhyme of "Star Light, Star Bright" and act out the story while working as a group with the help of the teacher. They also listen to the story on tape and sing the rhyming song.
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Dirty Dan Isn't Dull!
Students read smoothly and expressively while noticing punctuation and using voice inflection to emphasize important words and phrases in the text. They listen to and reread a poem in small groups. Students discuss how the poem sounds...
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Only Let Your Brain Hear You!
Students explore the benefits of silent reading and practice reading silently in this lesson. As they are silently reading, they use the cross checking strategy to monitor their comprehension. The teacher assesses their progress by...
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Listen to the Pin Drop
Young scholars practice reading silently. The class discusses the benefits of reading silently and several methods for reading silently, including cross checking and chunking. Working in groups, they silently read a leveled text and...
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Can You Feel the Book?
Young scholars observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. As a class they identify different expressions and emotions, then create expression cards. Students then discuss appropriate punctuation for the...
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Language: Has the Cat Got Your Tongue?
Use funny tongue twisters to entice your young learners! They'll love this game where they face off against members of the other team and recite tongue twisters. Who will win this enunciation and pronunciation competition!
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Reading Recall
Second graders review the vowe-consonant-e pattern in association with reading fluently. After identifying the changes made to a phoneme when the letter e is added at the end of the word, 2nd graders practice reading a phonetically...
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"Ready? READ!"
Students encounter how to decode words to comprehend text better. They read and re-read to become better and fluent readers. Students read in pairs to increase fluency. They incorporate "Book Talk" round table discussions over text with...
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"Ready, Set, Speed Read!"
Young scholars become fluent readers. They need plenty of time to practice reading familiar text in order to remember more words, read faster, smoother, and more expressively. Students reread familiar text, the more their reading skills...
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Learning to Read With Jet Speed
not a lesson plan Student's success in school depends on the accuracy at which they can read their materials in the expected amount of time. If students do not read accurately, quickly, and effortlessly they may fall behind their...
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Just "Itching" to Read More Fluently!
Students access how to decode words for meaning in text. They strive to read fluently with accuracy. Students read more fluently through utilizing one-minute reads of repeated readings, as the more a student rereads a passage, the more...
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Learners practice their pronunciation of words. They also practice stressing certain words and when to stress words in speech.
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Borrowed Poem Performance: Practice for Slam
Learners practice for a poetry slam. In this poetry lesson, students select borrowed poems to perform in a poetry slam in order to participate in their own poetry slam competition.
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Loving to Read While Learning to Express!
Students practice recognizing words more accurately, rapidly and automatically by assessing five major techniques and strategies: reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoother, reading silently, and reading voluntarily. They...
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
"It is my lady, O, It is my Love!" Provide class members an opportunity to develop their skills reading difficult text with an exercise that focuses on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii). Using the provided...
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Introduce -wh
Students practice the wh- sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students read the letters "wh" from the board and practice the sound of the letters. Students repeat the sound after the teacher and continue to practice using this sound by...
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Introduce /ay/
Students practice identifying the "ay" sound. In this sound fluency lesson plan, students view the two letters "ay" on the board and practice repeating the sound. Students identify 12 other letter combination sounds that are written on...
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Introduce /D/
Students identify the letter sound, "d." For this sound fluency lesson, students view the letter "d" and practice repeating the sound. Students identify the sounds of 12 letters written on the board and are given hints on how to...