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Speedy Monkeys

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing crosschecking, decoding, and rereading, pupils complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Feeding Red

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, rereading and reading with expression, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor,...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students complete a reading assessment...
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Speed Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment of...
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Simon Says: Mother May I?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After discussing the importance of fluency, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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Read as Smooth as the Breeze

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their...
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I'm Nuts About Reading

For Teachers 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies, 2nd graders read a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their words read per...
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Break It Down!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice the strategy of summarization in order to comprehend a text. They drill on how to delete unimportant information, repeated information and substitute easy terms for lists of items. Each student receives a copy of...
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What a Speed Reader!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing cover ups and cross checking, 3rd graders complete an initial read of a text. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of...
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Get Excited!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual learners complete a graded evaluation of...
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Growing Independence and Fluency Design: Express Yourself!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and excitement can enhance the text, 2nd graders listen as the teacher reads a story with and without emotion. Individual students practice...
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Practice Makes Perfect

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students 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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Let's Sum it Up

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review facts previously discussed about snakes and lizards and read pages in their science text book about snakes and lizards silently focusing on remembering important facts. They then complete a Venn diagram comparing snakes...
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Watch Out for the Wasp!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students 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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Is All Fair In War?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read the 1755 Bounty Proclamation and discuss what happened in Maine during this time period. With a partner, they use the text and dictionary to look up any word they do not know. They participate in a think, pair, share to...
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Pretty, Pretty Queen!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify and listen for the beginning sounds of words (specifically p and q). They recognize and comprehend the differences between p=/p/ and q=/kw/. Students practice writing p and q and also looking for them and listening for...
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Pink Puffy Pig

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emergent literacy lesson based upon the skill of phonemic awareness. They recognize the grapheme p in text, hear the phoneme /p/ in spoken words, and write the upper and lower case form of p by my modeling.
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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I Feel the Need....The Need for Speed!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners first learn to decode when learning to read. Decoding each letter and phoneme in a sentence or even a short text takes a considerable amount of time. Students must drill to progress in the pace and level of their reading. In...
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Reading With Speed

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners practice passages to increase their fluency. They work in pairs and time their peers for how long it takes to read sentences. They repeat the process three times and move to short text to continue practicing becoming a fluent...
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SSHHH¿¿Someone is Listening

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students, to be considered a fluent reader, must not only be able to read out loud but must also read silently. However, while reading silently, the student must still comprehend the reading. In this lesson, students will learn to read...
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"Sum, Sum, Sum It Up!"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a model of how to better comprehend text through using a summarization rubric which includes: deleting trivial information, deleting repeated information, substituting easy words for lists of items, adding a...
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Mapping of the Earth's Past

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create a scale model time linen of the Earth's 4.6 billion year history. They calculate a scale that can fit on a very long register tape then label each geologic era. They use text books to annotate each era with major geologic...
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Disease Prevention

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the various causes of the common cold. Using the internet, they identify the proper way to take care and treat a cold. They also describe the procedure to complete a throat culture. To end the lesson plan, they...

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