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The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...
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Up, Up and Away With Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of their...
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Aiming For Fluency

For Teachers 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a novel text. After recording a baseline words per minute, students complete...
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Transitional Guided Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Use a fill-in-the-blank lesson plan template to enhance your guided reading lesson plans with details surrounding decoding strategies, fluency and phrasing, vocabulary strategies, comprehension, and more! 
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Elementary learners practice reading with expression to understand text better. They identify punctuation marks to see how each sentence is to be expressed with a certain emotion. Then they practice their new skills by working through...
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Chunking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice is a great way to build skills in reading with fluency and intonation. In leveled pairs, learners read a simple passage pausing as indicated by the marks on the page. They take turns reading the passage until they are both...
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Fire! Fire! Fire!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The book Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia, is read with quickness and fluency in this activity. The teacher models slow, choppy oral reading, and then smooth, quick, and fluent oral reading. Then, young scholars read orally with a partner,...
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Get the Chicks in the Coop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Readers work to increase the speed of their out-loud reading to improve overall fluency.  They work with partners to time and record how far they read in one minute using the book Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type. The procedures mention...
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Say it with FEELING!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Why should we read with expression when we read? Engage your learners in this discussion and teach them the easiest way to gauge expression: the end mark! Is it a question mark? An exclamation point? This helps you determine how to...
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Monkey Business

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with expression, decoding and word recognition to become fluent readers. They read the book, "Not me!" Said the Monkey," by Cohn West and view drawings of a lion, snake, rhino, elephant and a monkey from the art...
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Guided Reading with Jazz Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Jazz music and musicians are the focus of this language arts lesson. Young readers independently read the book Jazz Baby. To build fluency and independence they read silently, but are guided by directive comments from the teacher. They...
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Reader's Theatre for The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in reader's theatre. For this compare and contrast lesson, students read the book The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. This lesson promotes fluency and expression. Students also read the traditional story of the Little...
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Ready, Set, Read!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice reading fluency and reading with expression. They develop reading fluency using timed reading. Students read "Arthur's Reading Race" and record how far they read in one minute. They repeat the reading in order to see...
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Let's Read with Expression!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the concept of expressive reading. Through modeling the teacher shows them that more expression makes reading more interesting and enjoyable to listen to. They review ending punctuation marks and the types of expression...
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Hip Hip Hooray for Expression!!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify what it means to be fluent and that there are five components: reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoothly, reading silently and being able to read voluntarily. Then they focus on being able to read with...
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Nascar Reading

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to sentences read with fluency and without to determine which sounds better. Next, with a partner or in a small group they practice reading a book three times. Finally, as an assessment, they read the book while being...
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Ribbit, Ribbit: Leap into Speedy Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore reading with fluency. They use repeated reading in order to improve their reading fluency. Students read "Frog and Toad are Friends." They discuss why it is important to read with fluency and explore what reading with...
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Lets Read Faster with Junie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assist them in becoming fluent readers. They practice reading with expressiveness and fluency with Junie B. Jones and some "Sneaky Peeky Spying," by Barbara Park. A checklist is...
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Reading Like an Expert!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners identify and interpret that they should read as if someone is explaining it to them like a conversation. Then they reread the text given until they are no longer decoding and it sounds like they are just talking. Students also...
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice the strategy of reading fluently with expression with the story "Who took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?" They read and reread the story utilizing different strategies when stuck on a word. Students practice whole...
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What Kind of Ladybug Are You?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
As a class, read different sentences prepared by the teacher, identifying the punctuation that is needed for the appropriate expression. In small groups, have each child assume the role of one or more character in The Grouchy Ladybug by...
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Exciting Expressions

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Elementary schoolers observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read A Fine, Fine School with and without expression and discuss the differences. Then in pairs, read the same...
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Book Study: The Polar Express

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
All aboard! Pair a reading of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg with a set of literacy activities. The packet of worksheets includes task cards, sorting activities, a synonym match, comparing and contrasting activities, writing...
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Expression!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.

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