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Tongue Twisters--Improve Enunciation for debaters
Students practice tongue twisters to help reinforce enunciation during debate.
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Letter Recognition: Tap Stack
Practice letter recognition using this fun alphabet game! Focusing on a suggested six target letters, this partner activity has learners saying and recognizing letter names as quickly as possible. Using a randomly chosen letter as the...
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Presenting Poetry
Learners encounter the fluency formula that states that it is important for kids to read and reread decodable words in a connected text. They must become effortless decoders in order to read fluently, and fluency in reading allows the...
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Myths, Folktales, & Fairy Tales for Grades K-3
Have your class explore the art of storytelling through this lesson on fairy tales and folktales. Learners interact with a variety of fairy tales and folktales. They practice telling stories out loud as well as writing their own. This...
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On-Demand End of Unit Assessment and Bookmark Celebration
Using everything they have learned about writing paragraphs over the past few lessons of the unit, class members compose an informative paragraph independently. This is an authentic assessment of their ability, since learners have...
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Future Board Game
Are your pupils going to enjoy this game? Definitely! Small groups practice conversational skills and the future tenses by asking and answering the questions provided on the game board.
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On-Level Small Group Phonics Lesson: ea /e/
Young scholars explore /e/. In this phonics lesson, students decode words with "ea" representing the short e sound. Young scholars read sentences and a short book that includes "ea" word practice.
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Introduce /R/
Students demonstrate the sound of the letter "r". In this sound fluency lesson, students view the letter "r" on the board and practice repeating the letter sound after the teacher. Students identify the sounds of the 12 letters written...
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Speedy Reading
Young scholars strive to read fluently so their entire reading experience is enriched. They use automatic word recognition, more expressive reading, and faster reading are all products of fluent reading. Students read and re-read...
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Reading, Sharing, and Comparing
Students review the 2 Finger Rule for selecting an appropriate book and then check out a book they can read. They practice cross checking to make sure they understand what they are reading and then read quietly in a comfortable spot for...
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Putting Reading first: Keys to Comprehension
Second graders recognize what comprehension is and can explain the strategies they are using. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, 2nd graders self assess the strategies they are using to comprehend a text. Students answer...
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Beginning Reading Lesson: Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!
Young scholars study the letter sound recognition for the /a/ by recognizing the sound one makes when they sneeze. They use a chart with a tongue twister on it and work with letterboxes and manipulative letters that focus on words with...
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Endangered Animals Podcast
Students research endangered animals. For this endangered animals lesson, students research the Internet for information. Students use this information to write a report and practice reading for fluency and expression. Students record...
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Introduce /T/
Students identify the sound of the letter "t". In this sound fluency lesson, students view the letter "t" on the board and practice repeating the letter sound following the teachers cue. Students practice identifying the sounds of 12...
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Introduce -er
Students practice the letter sound -er. In this sound fluency lesson, students identify the two letters that make the sound and write them on the board. Students practice making the sound -er and begin to identify 12 other letter sound...
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Christmas Board Game
Pupils play a Christmas themed board game to review holiday vocabulary. They practice their fluency by talking in small groups about whatever the board game square topic brings up for no less than two minutes (or they must move back 3...
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Introduce /B/
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the letter "b" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students practice saying the "b" sound orally and repeat words that contain the letter "b." Additionally, students demonstrate the differences...
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Reintroduce /ou/
Students demonstrate how to pronounce the "ou" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students review the letters that make the sound in the word "cloud" and then practice making the sound. Students identify the words on the board that...
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Telling a Story
Writers explore storytelling and focus in on verb tenses. They will work with a partner to generate a story and then switch partners and retell the story. They also complete past perfect continuous and past continuous verb tense worksheets.
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Go, Speed Reader! Go!
Students practice the strategy of decoding words to advance from beginning readers to independent readers. They read and reread the book, "Sam the Garbage Hound," by Charnan Simon. Fluency checklists are kept for each child and are...
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Sight Words on a Snowy Evening
Students read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their...
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The Secret School( Chapters 2 & 3)
Fourth graders read with a partner to practice reading. In this reading instructional activity, 4th graders will analyze the characters in the chapters of the book the Secret School. Students work on a list of important characters,...
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Quiet Please!
Students practice reading silently. They discuss the importance of being able to read silently. Students discuss what it means to read silently. They practicing reading a variety of texts silently. Students write a brief summary of what...