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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bright Spots: The West Virginia Campaign for Grade Level Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how educators across West Virginia are addressing issues of student attendance and literacy skills through these showcase programs.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get Close to Think Deeply: Creating Primary Level Close Readings

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This strategy guide focuses on planning and implementing close reading of complex text in the primary grades which fosters progressively deeper thinking as students become more responsible for their own learning. It offers a step-by-step...
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Other

Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Holiday Relay: A Sounding Out Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A small group game to practice word and sound recognition and accuracy. Given a sound or word, each student on team runs to pile of holiday shapes, finds the letter, or picture that begins with the sound, or brings back all the letters...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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US Department of Education

National Center for Education Statistics: Family Reading to Young Children

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short summary of statistics that show that reading to young children makes them more prepared for school and that families in lower socio-economic situations read to the children less than families in other economic levels.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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Other

Trelease on Reading: "The Read Aloud Handbook," Ch.6

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Author Jim Trelease presents ideas about how to make books and reading more appealing to children, which helps to raise reading rates and levels. Read these excerpts from his book on this topic.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: English: Pre A1 Level Activities for Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site has multiple activities for early language learners. Students can Sing and Learn- At the Zoo, Read and learn the names of different animals, Look at the letters and make words about the body with them, Read and learn new words...
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:multi Tier Reading Intervention:primary Grade

For Teachers K - 1st
This Practice Guide, by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement RTI to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Level 200 Reading Topics

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Choose a story from seven stories to read and/or listen to. Practice reading comprehension by completing the interactive quizzes and exercises. Answer the questions, then look for your score.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Choral Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about choral reading, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement choral reading, understand how to measure progress with choral reading, find research that supports choral...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Fact and opinion practice exercises, answer sheets, and explanation summaries are included on this tutorial site. Worksheets are tiered in levels of difficulty.
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International Reading Association

Reading Online: Reading Alone Together

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this educational research article, the use of reading partnerships in the context of classrooms where some students are learning a second language. The first part of the article discusses the benefits of adding extensive reading to...
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International Reading Association

Reading Online: Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this commentary, the author, Michael Graves, Professor at the University of Minnesota, seeks to include findings related to adolescent reading related to reading for understanding and showing "where" to fit in reading in the secondary...
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Read Works

Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Read Works

Read Works: Life in the Ocean

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different depth levels of the ocean and the types of animals that live in each. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own young scholars transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Help Beginners With Oral Reading

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This helpful overview for teachers recommends strategies that aid young readers with oral reading.
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English Zone

English zone.com: Reading Zone

For Students 9th - 10th
Find reading selections by skill level (easy to advanced) or type (poems). Some free content on the site but hard to pick it out. Subscription-based access mostly.