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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scoring a Goal with Fluency!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice a variety of strategies to become fluent readers with expression. They master the ability to read quickly and accurately and focus on decoding individual words to achieve automatic word recognition, as well as, develop...
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Lesson Plan
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
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Lesson Plan
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Reintroduce /i/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
As your scholars begin learning letters of the alphabet, help them connect sound, pronunciation, word examples, and letter recognition using these strategies. Focusing on the letter i, begin by drawing it on the board. Can scholars...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Onset-Rime Segmenting Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st
Use a puppet (in this case named Mico) to make onset and rime more fun. Mico presents 12 picture cards to kindergartners, all depicting single-syllable words. He pronounces them with segmenting onset and rime, encouraging kids to say the...
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Worksheet
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Play I Spy

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
If you're looking for a fun way to practice initial phonemes with emerging readers, look no further! They examine a farm scene to find things that begin with f, h, or g, writing the total number they found in a box beside each letter....
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Lesson Plan
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kindergarten/First Grade Phonics

For Teachers K - 1st
Get involved with phonics by recognizing one particular letter. Learners name a letter, know it by sound, decode basic CVC words and use the letter in writing. A variety of options are given to the your learners: making a letter collage,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Big Green Monster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, students read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They complete center activities in groups of four in order to aid in decoding and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

School - Home Links: Colors

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this words and colors worksheet, students have their parents read 6 color phrases to them, point out each word with their fingers and then color each picture the color stated in the phrases read to them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Get your scholars excited about phonemes using Mico the puppet; they use the picture cards to examine three words at a time. Mico says the ending sound of one of the words, and learners determine which of them is a match. You'll want to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oh Look, You're Fluent!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice decoding unknown words and improving their fluency. They review using cover-up sticks to decode unknown words while reading. They practice sentences and a short story to increase their fluency. They work in pairs...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links:

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood reading words worksheet, students sound out 5 letter combinations and then read the words with the consonant cluster. Students identify 5 words that begin with tr.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Ghost Says Boo

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and its placement in words. They read a passage with words...
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Lesson Plan
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Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Lesson Plan
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Icky Sticky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Lesson Plan
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Introduce Silent-letter Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to silent letter words and practice their silent sound. In this silent letter words lesson, 1st graders take turns reading words with silent letters. Students sound out words and recognize the silent letter...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Lesson Plan for a Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 8th
Strategy-based programs that are executed with consistency are the best for achieving growth in any learner with a learning disability. Here is a seven-step lesson plan that is highly structured and is intended to help learners with...
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Lesson Plan
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Hi, My Name is A

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice decoding pseudo words with the vowel-consonant-e...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ruby's Whistle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate the children's book "Ruby's Whistle" in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They make connections with the text while reading that include sight word recognition, putting together contractions, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
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Lesson Plan
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Fuzz and the Buzz

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Lesson Plan
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Faster And Faster!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing rereading as a fluency strategy, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound Stretching

For Teachers K
In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a whole-class setting.