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Make Way for Readers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading fluently and with expression. They explore different techniques for reading quickly when coming upon unknown words. They also participate in a paired reading activity in which they read "Make Way for...
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As Smooth as Silk

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice strategies dealing with reading fluency and how to read smoothly. They study the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, while incorporating cross checking. This activity includes a small drum, a piece of silk and a...
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Ready, Set, Go!!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading have on speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to improve...
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Falling Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying individual sounds in words by interacting with the phoneme /a/. They recite the tongue twister, "Abby had an apple in the bag," and play the game beware of the falling apples. Each student also reads the...
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Podcasting Poetry Slam

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Engage your class with a poetry slam. A poem is read aloud using a podcast. A few days are provided for learners to listen to the podcast and make a slam (connection) between the original poem and another poem. After everyone has had a...
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What's All the Buzz about .... Reading!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars use fluency checklists in this lesson plan to improve oral reading ability. The teacher models fluent and timed reading while reading the story "Fuzz and the Buzz." The students work with a partner to time each others...
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Reading Fluency Poetry Reading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe video of poem recitations of a person reciting a poem. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders discuss rhythm and rhyme of poetry as well as pauses within poems. Students choose a poem, in a small group, and...
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Reading Race

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe how the first sentence of a story is read very slowly and can be read faster and with more expression. They then read the same book three times to become more familiar with the words in the book and then read it...
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Sound It Out!

For Teachers 2nd
Help your class improve their spelling skills. Learners take a test, are given a particular spelling rule to practice, and play a Bingo game. This employs various methods for practicing spelling skills.
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Reading Faster with Wild Thing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners 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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The Secret School

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read THe Secret School. In this language arts lesson, 4th graders make predictions prior to reading and discussing the story. Students write a summary of the chapter.
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Not Just Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to improve their oral expression while reading aloud. They read and record an entire story with a partner and listen to the playback of the readings. They evaluate their expressive language using a given checklist.
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Speedy Readers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read orally to increase their reading speed and fluency in this lesson. They listen to the teacher model expressive and fluent reading. They then practice reading orally with a partner. The partner times their reading with...
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Friends in the Snow

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading a story in order to develop character recognition skills. They participate in reader's theatre in small groups to increase cooperation and fluency skills.
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Quick - Follow That Bear!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils examine the importance of speaking with fluency and expression. They listen to the teacher modeling fluent, smooth reading and choppy reading. The students read "Follow That Bear!" orally, and practice reading it quickly and with...
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Class

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars read the reader's theater play, 'The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash.' They practice reading for fluency and present the story through acting and oral reading. Some students read the script and others act it out. They...
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And the Race is On..

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students reread texts with one minute reads to increase their reading pace and fluency. They work with a partner and time each other's oral reading. They reread the book "Lee and the Team" and fill out their partner's Speed Record Sheet.
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Alphabet Poems

For Teachers K - 1st
Develop fluency with a variety of works. Help kindergartners use multiple strategies to understand text and decoding. They will create an alphabet poem book on Kid Works 2 to illustrate and write their own poem. In the end, they will...
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Writing and Presenting a Fable Using Research

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Elementary and middle schoolers research animal facts and use them in a fable. First, they pair-share to find animal traits to use in writing a fable. They then complete a prewriting worksheet. After going through the writing process,...
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Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading orally with expression. Students are divided into pairs and receive the book "The Big Wide Mouthed Frog." The partners take turns reading the book with a lot of expression. The students rate each others'...
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A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class.  In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher.  Young scholars...
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The Poetry of Woody Guthrie

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students develop oral fluency through reading and singing. They sing "This Land is Your Land" and discuss what the pictures and words mean in the song. They connect the song and poem and previous learning and write a journal.

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