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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
There are five components of reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers: Word identification/decoding, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, and Engagement/motivation. These components are discussed and a video of middle school...
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Goshen College

Bird Ritual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Academic Language: Everyone's "Second" Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Being able to speak English fluently does not guarantee that a student will be able to use language effectively in academic settings. Fluency must be combined with higher order thinking skills to create an "academic language," which...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go Fishing for a Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders use a familiar card game to help them build their math fact fluency for facts where the sum is 10.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
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Information Fluency

21st Century Information Fluency Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Resources and information, free to all Illinois teachers, to learn how to locate and evaluate digital information.
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Multiplication and Division Fluency Set of Tasks [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
In this lesson plan, students are tasked with fluently solving multiplication and division facts.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Fluency in Subtraction Numbers Up to 20

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses a model to demonstrate subtraction with two numbers that are less than 10.
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LD Online

Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Greetings (Saludos)

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs in which students read a brief, simple monologue and then answer comprehension questions about what they have read. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises in English.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Sports &Hobbies (Telling Time)

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish-speaking ELLs can read a short sporting activities schedule and test themselves using interactive comprehension exercises.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: The Menu at Joe's Family Restaurant

For Students 9th - 10th
A reading comprehension exercise designed for teaching Spanish-speaking ELLs about using restaurant menus.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Animals (Animales)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site for teaching Spanish-speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is animals. Exercise follows short reading. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise in English.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Health (La Salud)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An exercise designed to teach Spanish-speaking ELLs about healthy eating and the vocabulary of food and nutrition. Students answer comprehension questions based on a short reading about losing weight. Instructions in Spanish; exercise in...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Writing Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...
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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Caught It!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, young scholars read the book I Was Walking Down The Road by Sarah E. Barchas and Jack Kent and study the predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern. Then, students write their own sentences to mimic those patterns.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Reader's Theater

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Apply content from lessons 1-6 to improve reading fluency and comprehension.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
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Knowledge Share

Super Kids: Hangman

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive site to enhance students' spelling and vocabulary while refreshing their memories in history, geography, language, science, and entertainment. It is available to use on line or you can purchase leveled apps for the...
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International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
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International Reading Association

Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

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