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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, I Read, You Point

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners read as many high-frequency words as possible in a given amount of time. Peer one reads a word from a list, and peer two points to the corresponding word as they are seen on the table. This activity is timed and peer evaluated.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Word Climb

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Just like climbing a mountain, little learners read to reach the top. They take turns picking high-frequency word cards, reading them, then matching them to the words on their mountain worksheet. They race to reach the top of the...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Pass the Word

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Learners time each other as they read as many high-frequency words as possible in one minute. Peers record progress.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Structure and Meaning Cues

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders use cues to identify unknown words. They will learn strategies to assist them in decoding while reading.  Then they discuss how to listen to themselves read in order to decide whether or not the word makes sense in the...
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Worksheet
Tech Know Teaching

6th Grade Constructed Response Question

For Students 4th - 6th
Graphs, charts, maps, diagrams. Reading and comprehending informational text is far more than just decoding the words on a page. Here's a packet that provides young readers with practice answering constructed response questions using...
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Handout
BBC

Getting Online One Click at a Time

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
The Internet is a vast and fascinating place to be, but you have to know how to get there first! Use a helpful guide to become computer savvy in no time. It covers computer basics such as keyboarding and hardware, and goes into e-mail,...
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Lesson Plan
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 16 - Adding Vowel Suffixes to CVC and Silent E Base Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
There's a big difference between hoping and hopping. A lesson on adding vowel suffixes discusses when to double a consonant before adding a suffix such as -ed or -ing. Readers practice breaking down words into syllables and creating new...
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Lesson Plan
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 15 - Soft G and Soft C

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
The names Cindy and Carrie start with the same letter, but have very different sounds. The 15th of 17 word recognition lessons focuses on the soft C sound found in Cindy and the soft G sound found in Gene. Direct instruction starts with...
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

Skink No Surrender: Novel Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The oldest turtle ever recorded lived to the age of 188! As it turns out, two characters from Carl Hiaasen's Skink No Surrender are fascinated by these shelled creatures. Using the novel study, scholars research three types of turtles...
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Worksheet
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Sight Word Fluency Lists 61 to 70

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Every word matters. Increase reading fluency with word recognition practice. Scholars continue to practice reading words in each list until they demonstrate mastery. Readers practice both new and review word lists.
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Activity
Discovery Education

Blueprint for Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
DNA is the code for all biological traits, both plant and animal. Using an exploratory lesson, learners begin to explore the concept of a biological code by decoding word puzzles. They then extract DNA from plant cells using detergent to...
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Lesson Plan
American Institute of Physics

The Tuskegee Weathermen: African-American Meteorologists during World War II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Chances are good that young scholars have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen but few would predict that these pilots had their own support in the form of the Tuskegee Weathermen. These Black meteorologists were recruited and trained to provide...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Jabberwocky": Inferring

For Teachers 1st
Pupils, over an extended time, read and explain the nonsense words of Lewis Carroll's poem, "Jabberwocky". They infer the meaning of the poem using visualizing as well as decoding skills. While written for first graders, this is easily...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Context

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Teams practice decoding and using context strategies to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. After verifying the meanings of words through the use of dictionaries, the Internet, thesauruses, and other sources, learners write the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Does PAN Mean?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Do your middle school scholars need practice decoding words while reading or for spelling? The root word pan is the focus of a nine-step instructional activity that asks learners to discover ways to figure out the meaning of words built...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communications: To the Rescue!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars role-play as soldiers rescuing lost mountain climbers. Working in teams, they interpret maps to locate the climbers and use flashlights to send and receive coded messages about the rescue. Their goal is to complete the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Winter Secret Message Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this winter secret message puzzle worksheet, students solve the secret message by matching the pictures and letters in the code and writing the winter phrase.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thanksgiving History

For Teachers 1st
First graders decode Thanksgiving vocabulary while learning about the history of this holiday.  In this Thanksgiving history lesson, 1st graders listen to a story, trace their hands to make turkey feathers and listen to a turkey poem. ...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Context Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop vocabulary using pre -reading strategies. For this language arts lesson, students discuss the intended message from observing a picture. Additionally, students explore guessing the covered word within a text.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Grocery List

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students make a list and decode words that are related to grocery shopping. In this grocery shopping lesson plan, students discuss what you do at the grocery store.
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Organizer
Curated OER

School-Home Links

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this learning to read worksheet, students decode 5 words as they work with a caregiver to sound each letter of the word out until they have successfully pronounced the word.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this learning to read worksheet, students decode 5 words as they work with a caregiver to sound each letter of the word out until they have successfully pronounced the word.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this learning to read worksheet, students decode 12 words as they work with a caregiver to sound each letter of the word out until they have successfully pronounced the word.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this learning to read worksheet, students decode 8 words as they work with a caregiver to sound each letter of the word out until they have successfully pronounced the word.

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