Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Listen!
This small group lesson addresses a very specific skill that some students need to improve their reading skills - self-monitoring. Using play phones, the students will listen to themselves very carefully to see whether what they are...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!
In this instructional activity, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text,...
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Alex: A Star and a Wish
For this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read Well Letter Chant Podcast
This lesson guides learners through creating a Podcast that provides video and audio of the Read Well Letter Chant. Students take pictures of the cards and record the chant to go along with the cards.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Caught It!
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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Alex: Carle's Crazy Critters
This instructional activity provides learners with the opportunity to read books aloud to the class. Students also spend time researching Eric Carle and his practices as a writer and illustrator. Finally, learners become writers and...