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Hit a Homerun with Reading Speed
Students review basic reading decoding/comprehension. They read passages and see how fast they can read the pages. In a baseball-like game, they try to read faster and faster. If they improve their fluency rate, they increase their...
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Get the Chicks in the Coop
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...
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Fluency: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Mix-Up
Scholars time each other as they work through a sheet of all 26 letters. They test each other to see how many letters sounds they can identify in one minute.
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Reading Like Wild Animals!
Learners read orally a number of times to increase oral reading speed and fluency. The teacher models fluent oral reading, and the students practice on sample sentences. They then read with a partner working to increase their oral...
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Role Playing for Fluency
Students explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
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Reading Lessons for Alaska State Standards - Reading Rate and Fluency
Sixth graders read a given passage silently. The student then reads the same passage orally to a partner. The partner records the number of words pronounced incorrectly. The student then sets goals to increase oral reading speed and...
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5-4-3-2-1 Blast Off To Reading
Learners practice reading with fluency by rereading texts to increase their speed. They listen to the teacher model fluent, smooth, and expressive oral reading. They then work in a small group reading orally and self-assessing their...
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Worksheet 28: Parametric Equations
In this parametric equations worksheet, students read informational paragraphs and answer 10 questions regarding parameter, velocity, speed, curvature, parametric equations, and scalar curvature.
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Sentence Completion 12: High-Intermediate Level
The power in this activity is in the detailed answer sheet that explains precisely why one answer is the best response to the question. There are explanations that serve as models for how to approach sentence completion exercises. The...
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Fluency is Freedom!
Young scholars read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this instructional activity. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer...
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Go, Speed Reader, Go
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working in small groups, they read complete a timed...
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Around the Bases with Reading
Young scholars increase 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 read complete a timed assessment...
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Speed Read
Learners practice reading and rereading in order to increase their fluency with speed and accuracy. They review how to decode words and to reread selections so that they become more familiar with reading. Next, they read "James and the...
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Aiming For Fluency
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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Ribbit, Ribbit: Leap into Speedy Reading
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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Hurricane Strength: Spatial Association of Wind Speed and Water Temperature
In this hurricane activity, students read and analyze satellite images of hurricane Rita. They complete 4 short answer questions about it.
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Ready, Set, Let's Read
Learners increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Ready, Set, Read!
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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Word-O for Fluency
First graders are introduced to the game of Word-O to increase their fluency while reading. Individually, they look, say and write at their high frequency words and practice spelling them. To end the lesson, they are introduced to new...
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Ready...Set...Go!!
Readers work to increase their reading fluency through repeated timed readings. They learn to read with more excitement and enthusiasm in their voices, making a more pleasurable experience for their listeners.
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Get ready, get set? READ!!!
Students participate in reading exercises to improve speed, fluency, and comprehension. As a class, students practice reading skills to increase their speed and comprehension. Partners take turns competing in a reading race while reading...
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High in the Sky with Fluency
Students practice reading orally to increase speed and fluency in this lesson. The teacher models fluent reading by reading orally the book "Arthur's Reading Race." The students then work with a partner taking turns reading and...
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Reading Faster with Wild Thing
Students practice one-minute oral readings to increase their speed and fluency. They review several reading strategies, and then they read orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with a stopwatch and tracks their time on...
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Ready to Race
Learners practice techniques to help them be able to read faster, smoother and with expression. They read and reread a text in order to become more familiar with the words in the passage. Each student is given a copy of "Caps for Sale,"...